Autumn

<p><strong>Discover how this transitional season can reveal both the abundance and the limitations of our everyday lives.</strong></p><p>Autumn with all its traditional images of colorful trees frost-covered pumpkins and piles of wood stored up against winter's cold can be a season filled with anticipation. The harvest the imminent onset of cold and snow the resumption of old routines and the beginning of the school year all require preparation and planning. If summer has been something of a pause autumn helps us to see the passage of time more clearly.</p><p>Autumn is a season of fruition and reaping of thanksgiving and celebration of abundance and goodness of the earth. But it is also a season that starkly and realistically encourages us to see our own limitations.</p><p>Warm and stirring pieces by E. B. White Anne Lamott P. D. James Julian of Norwich May Sarton Kimiko Hahn and many others in this beautiful book rejoice in autumn as a time of preparation and reflection when the results of hard labor are ripe for harvest.</p>