Welcome Autumn!🍂

 

Good Morning!

Today around 2:37-ish it will officially be Autumn.

I am still happy that this week will be Summer reaching forward to give us

a bit more warmth and humidity & maybe even a shower or two.

It is also Monday !

The start of a new week, a new season and perhaps even a new mindset.

I am here.

To be honest, I am not okay with how things have played out in this world.

The obvious line between dark and light is HUGE yet so many just 

can not grasp that they are part of the problem.

I am not *fine*.

But I have choices. Everything is a choice.

We have been lectured to about this....

About how your *toxic positivity * harms others.

I call bull$hit.

No. It is sometimes that small brave voice inside us 

on days that are rough fighting to remind us that life is

not this moment that may save us.

Manufactured, nonsense words without any meaning .

Yeah I have done away with that way of thinking.

It is wrong and it is harmful.

Sometimes life throws stuff at you.

Sometimes it is awful and terrible and sometimes you 

are the only adult in the room holding everything together,

for instance when my parents passed away so suddenly.

I had to grow up quick and also be a wife and mom.

I had to find golden nuggets of Grace in those days.

I was not being *toxic* I was being pragmatic and thinking of my family.

But so many of us are just like that.

We look for that river lining even when it is hard.

So, no.

I will be as positive as I wish.

Thanks.

Oh it is Fall in New England.

Really like living in a storybook.

I do remember tailgates and football games

( I was in band), shopping for a warm coat,

stopping by local farms for apple cider

and those long rides through the country.

Now, I live in the countryside and watch as car loads of people

come by the waterfall every week.

I still purchase new coats ( this year was a new coat year)

and also a new boot one as well.

The long rides...yep they are a reward for a long work week.

But we go further into the countryside... deeper and farther away

from people & stress.

the folks we do meet along the way  are often some

of the sweetest people who like us, just want for more

civility...it is not that we dislike people, it is that so many

have become rude, arrogant and entitled brats.

We are finding that there is a wave of young people who

is distancing themselves from the poisonous narratives and who

just want their slice of the American pie .

A cozy home, a few acres, children and someone to love.

Purposeful work and perhaps some of that nostalgic joy

that warms the heart.

I am fortunate to call many of these people friends.

They are brave, strong, committed and willing to work hard.

Autumn.

Monday.

Will today be the day for you to move into the mindset

that you can have your dream, you can find happy moments even

in the midst of uncertain times.

Leave those voices behind that tell you otherwise.

Let's jump into the season with a hearty side dish.

I have made the and honestly, they are  filling- without a protein or starch.

Yummy and filling.

May you all have a golden Monday and first day of Autumn.

May it begin the start of a life full  of possibilities.

Blessings,

Raven

xoxo