Autumn

I always call it fall. Irene prefers autumn. She's right.

Some of us spent our lives in schools, as students first and then as teachers. We lived a cornucopia of gifts and sometimes a Pandora's Box of troubles.

For us, the fall is as much about beginnings as it is about fading light and the coming of winter.

We may be enveloped by darkness; light still shines.
As Solnit writes, the beginning comes after the end.

Tim Snyder has a series of meditations spoken in darkness from Kharkiv. They name the fundamentals as we look ahead.

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Here's one way to get to the last of Pandora's gifts.
One way to Snyder's "small acts of courage."

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Coming together in person is catharsis.

We lost Don Schmidt, last week.
If you knew him you are feeling the loss.
Donny saw the darkness. He lived the light.