Slim Randles' Home Country
Emerging fall, transforming
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[October 06, 2007]
Sweet transition from the heat, from the work, from the
hard, rough edges of life. On we go now to autumn, to black, lacy
leaves and twigs standing out against an orange sky. The mornings
now have that coolness, that chill that tells us we once again have
made it through the heat and toil and can sit back now and then and
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We can think now of family, of children growing and learning. We can
think of loved ones growing old and feeble, but even more beloved as
we realize what treasures they are to us.We can think back on
childhood memories of lazy mornings in church, when the droning kept
us in constant danger of sleep, of the smell of coffee, of the taste
of purloined doughnuts and the sweet frosting on them.
We can think back to the fires of spring, when we found that love
is not only terrible, but terribly exciting, too. We can reflect on
moments so sacred they live only within our souls and are never
expressed, because no one is good enough to put the right words to
them.
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We look at red barns and horses starting to shag up for winter.
We think of the woods, and the deer, and the creeks running pure
clear and cold with fish and quiet. The evenings now are the quiet
fall evenings when we see the first star come out right over the
town where it has always been and we once again ask ourselves if it
has always been this way and do we make a difference, or is this
simply a chance for our souls to slide through a beautiful time
known as life.
We settle down now to an earlier bedtime, to a later getting-up
time, to savoring the heat of the morning coffee as well as the
smell and the taste. We look around, now that the fever of summer
work has abated, and we notice people and pets and neighbors that
are precious to us, and we give a little smile and nod, which means,
"I love you, too."
[Text from file received from Slim Randles]
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