Month: September 2023

Since the beginning of time, or as far back as we can surmise, humans have felt a need to eat.  Some sparingly, others like King Henry VIII in glutenous binges until you’re so stuffed you can barely walk.  Unlike lesser animal forms, that would eat pretty much whatever was at paw or claw until it ran out, and then they moved on, we human beings, an imaginative sort, learned fairly early on to either grow or hunt our own.  

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The changing of seasons usually prompts me to write.  Well, truthfully, looking out the window prompts me to write.  But Fall seems to signal the closing of another year.  Not quite closing – we’ll save that until November, when the area really looks bleak – dark and damp, trees standing naked with the leaves gone.  I’ve often thought that trees in November look particularly forlorn, almost embarrassed to be seen until the snows come and dresses them up a bit. 

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