Labor Day 2010 ... Season's Change

It is beautiful!  This season that is coming to us now!  Today, is the perfect day; this weekend, the perfect weekend in weather (here in Omaha).  A reminder of our summer with a gentle nudge to embrace a 'change'.  The sky is soooo blue, though a pinch darker than the "sky blue" of the artist's perfect summer day painting ... the cornfields, stalks still high, have yielded to their 'wheat' color after bearing their fruit ... and the green that still surrounds their plots creates an explosive abstract of the seasons that are changing hands!!  Magnificent beauty!  So pleasant to my eyes!  Joy, to my heart!

AAAAHHHHHH .... routine settles back in ~ summer "chaos" diminishes ~ and I know that the season of the year that allows for me to discard all unnecessary and unwanted items / situations in my life, is here!!  As the leaves will soon change in their color ... and eventually fall from the tree of life ... so too, shall the things that bring stress or unbalance, fall to the wayside ~ cut off from their source of feeding!  I love the fall season of Autumn.  It truly is like the season where everything shifts back into 'balance' and only what is good, remains.  After the springtime of newness and invitation and experimentation; and after the summertime of experimenting with all that came in the spring; Autumn comes to sift through what is good to be kept.  And then wintertime will come to thoroughly enjoy what we have become ... and gear up for the cycle to begin again!  Life!!

Today, this day of 2010, I am most serene and at peace in my bubble of family.  My children.  Finally, at this hour, all are exactly where they are meant to be ... and we can all settle into this falltime journey.  Three hours ago, I was still dangling by one thread in the summertime blitz, as I had not known if my daughter, Shannon, had safely landed at her Fall semester home in Belgium ... but I know now, that she has.  And she is safe ... and most important, she is already enraptured with her new home.  My three boys and I have already had the comfort of this falltime schedule in place for a couple weeks, and we are balancing very nice.  Danny, in school again yet filling his need to voice his love for sports (CU) in both writing and radio announcing!!  His networking skills are impressive.  And he also goes to work in a place where he is surrounded by another love ~ books ~ where he finds unlimited joy and masterpieces.  Brendan, fulfilling quite Brendan-like, his last steps of independence in his first semester of college.  He too, is finding the necessary responsibility of balancing academics, socializing, and employment!  And my youngest, Shane, now the only child left at home ... is completely geared up for 3 years of having the 'house to himself'!!  And I am ready to assume, with awe, that path where all "empty-nester's" go, while I enjoy mothering and nuturing 'the last standing'! 

This year, has brought many, many things.  There seemed more tornados than most years.  I have survived.  In many ways, I have thrived.  I am ready for Fall.  Let the leaves change into their beautiful vibrancy, before they detach and gracefully fall.  Let wintertime bring it's solace.  For today, the ones that matter most to my life, are home indeed, for this semester of life. 

There is one other, whom I wish to reach for ... He guided me to this day ... Forever I am grateful ... Forever, I love you ... My heart aches (it's all good!!!) for Security. 

~Love, Terri