Autumn is “the season between summer and
winter, where in Australia it begins on
March 1 and lasts until May 31, marking when the days begin to shorten as
it cools towards winter”.
The main highlight for me of Autumn are
the beautiful Autumn trees - I love the changing colours of the leaves, where
it is the most beautiful sight walking around my neighbourhood and seeing
yellow, orange and red leaves. On my
daily walk there are so many beautiful Autumn trees and I love just looking at
them and enjoying their beauty. My favourite tree in Autumn is the Liquid Amber - as I love that the leaves look like hands.
I love the different times of day and
seeing the light on the Autumn trees, where the other evening, just as the sun
was going down, an Autumn tree, dressed in red leaves, looked magnificent with
the remaining light of the day. I also
love being at the base of the tree and looking up through the leaves, looking
up to the sky.
In all of these moments of appreciating
the beauty, when I am in complete presence, I feel Joy.
In previous years Autumn for me has been
about being out with my children too, picking up Autumn leaves and throwing
them in the air. I love taking photos of
my children amidst the Autumn leaves. We
even took some beautiful photos of our family out and about in Autumn 2018 and
I made a photobook, where looking at the photobook brings my Joy. I love remembering the special times,
precious memories that live in my heart.
I absolutely love the photos of my children and family and I feel so
blessed. Although we haven’t been out
much this Autumn, due to the coronavirus, we will get back out there
again. And when I have been out with my
children, I always like to point out the beautiful colours of the Autumn
leaves.
In our backyard we also have a tree that
is deciduous and I love looking out of my daughter’s window or our back door
and seeing the beautiful Autumn leaves.
I am not a big fan of the cold, where in
Autumn we are feeling the weather definitely getting cooler - yet I love
putting on my scarves. In fact this is
when I really appreciate my material scarves the most and as I write this
words, I think that I will buy a few more - as I have always loved material
from when I did sewing classes in Year 9 and 10 at school - and yes the wearing
of scarves is definitely bringing me Joy and keeping my neck warm.
Autumn for me this year with the cooler
weather is also about me making soups and I have loved experimenting and
looking up recipes and making soup.
Autumn
this year has been about isolation due to the coronavirus, as we have been at
home over March, April and May. I remember studying the Heroe’s Journey at
College and feel that Autumn represents a Crossing of the Threshold -
particularly evident this year where we have been propelled into an unknown life, outside our current comfort
zone. Joseph Campbell in his book ‘Hero
With A Thousand Faces’ talks about the threshold being a “point of no return”,
where “we cannot go back to the way things used to be”, where we need to “move
forward”. This is how I am feeling,
where Autumn has definitely been a time of change, committing to change and
experimenting with new conditions. And
as temperatures drop, and
leaves fall, Autumn illustrates for us a sense of letting go and I am feeling
at peace and Joyful with new opportunities.
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