The Coming of Fall   The coming of fall is a joyful time of harvest, plenitude, fulfillment — sadness, too. Don’t you feel it? We’re past the prime of summer, so we can rethink the mad promises of spring and how we were drunk on possibility, but now we know better, beyond the chatter of our monkey minds. The air is quieter now, the slow pull of the river’s current more insistent as the evenings grow longer. We can gather and remind ourselves that each day is a forever, but blink and you’ve missed it. Autumn — the time to light our lamps and to honor those who show others the way.                              for Baron & Janet Wormser     © Michael Fleming Brattleboro, Vermont September 2025