It is Fall!

Today is the first day of Autumn!  It's a holiday, like other holidays, that the Church must have stolen from pagans for something.  Not sure what.  But it sounds good, so because Christmas and Easter are just holidays the Church stole from pagans, this must be too.  Mark Shea, doing what he does best, has some fun with that brand of scholarship.

For me, it's the beginning of the finest time.  The best time.  My favorite season that starts now and ends sometime after Easter.  I just hibernate through the Summer months.

Truth be told, it's not quite what it used to be.  Yes, it's true.  As you get older, things do change.  For instance, our three oldest boys did a bang up job making sure our youngest was part of the party.  For years, even though they had outgrown their childhood interests, they would still put on the costumes or run through the parks, chasing ghosts with our youngest.

Of course as life goes on, they move on toward school, jobs, vocations, and their own pilgrimages in life, it's more and more difficult to get them together.  They still try, but they just don't have the availability, as it should be.  So as they move on, naturally it is different. Life was never meant to be stagnant.  Sometimes I think people with a proclivity toward traditional views can slip into that trap.  The world has always changed.  And it will again.

Nonetheless, the boys still do their best, and I'm sure we'll have plenty of fun.  We've had a series of issues, health and otherwise, finances and plans, but as always we'll trudge forward.  There will be cider and pumpkin pie and pumpkin doughnuts, ghost runs and Halloween specials and spook movies galore.  Not sure how many boys will be available as our youngest goes Tricks or Treating, but we'll make it work (right now, we're trying to get him to be Baby Groot).

Over the years, I've posted my thoughts on the awesomeness of this season.  Here are some links to years gone by and what was on my mind about the coming festivities.  Among other things, Autumn seems to be the season that brings about the most nostalgia, so looking back at previous posts seems to make sense.