It’s the weekend!

It's the weekend! Number 272, Mums and Gourds on Front Steps

This weekend I’m starting Thanksgiving preparations, making lists and baking bread. I’m looking forward to the upcoming holiday!

Have a great weekend and stay warm!

It has turned cold again, back to normal temperatures. The leaves are piled up in the yard and the trees are bare. I was covered with hail during my lunchtime walk yesterday. Winter is coming.

Not to be morbid, but I’ve been reading about death recently. Thoughts of aging and dying have been coming up. We have aging parents. They have lived long lives, long enough that my husband and I are also no longer young and feeling immortal. We’re becoming increasingly aware of the direction in which we are headed – that thing that you can count on, eventually.

But, it isn’t all dreary. In reading about the art critic Peter Schjeldahl’s recent passing, I had the impression that he had made good use of his final years and lived them fully. He defied predictions of his time left and wrote and wrote and wrote — a gift to everyone who loves reading his work. Then, last weekend, I read a wonderful piece by Sara Harrison about her grandfather dying on his own terms. These articles are reminders of the positive side of the process of living and dying, of prioritizing what is important and getting it done, of living the last of one’s life as one wants, inasmuch as that is possible.

And here is what I want to share with you this weekend.

About the photo: Gourds and mums decorate the steps of a local home.

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