One morning last week I was sitting in my usual spot, my desk that sits in front of the big window and overlooks the street and the hills beyond. Lately I've been immersed in working on a new book (my first real novel that I'm actually going to publish), when a movement from the corner of my eye caught my attention. I looked up bleary-eyed from the screen and saw a perfect, beautiful, gold and orange leaf float gracefully past my window on the morning breeze. It was then that I actually took the time to look up and out into the distance to see that, indeed, the colors of fall had arrived in my neighborhood!
I can't imagine that I let myself get so caught up in my work that I was missing what was going on right in front of my nose. Me? The frustrated gardener/nature girl? What was even more ironic was the fact that my novel takes place in the fall, and I had gone to great lengths to describe the colors, the scents, and the scenery ,,, in the book! While I was writing about it, I was missing it, until Mother Nature sent that little colorful messenger floating past my window to remind me to "look up and see what you're missing."
With all that has gone on and is still going on, we should not become so caught up in fear and worry that we forget to avail ourselves of Mother Nature's natural medicine for uplifting our spirits and feeding our souls, namely nature itself. Especially at this time of year, the colors of autumn can nourish and invigorate our lives so that we can move forward. Call it Mother Nature's sensory shot of Vitamin D! It's free, it's readily available, there are no shortages, and you can take it with you wherever you go. I'd like to see Amazon match that!
And so it is.
