Autumn with a vengeance

Over the last week, the temperature hasn't risen above 70 degrees; in the evenings, it's been very, very cool. Cool enough so that my days of sleeping with the windows open are over. Night before last, I shut the windows; they're closed now for the season. I figure that in another week or two it will be time for me to switch my bedding from summer quilt to down comforter. Within another, oh, four weeks or so, it'll be time to switch my sheets from percale to either jersey or flannel.

I'm ready, I think, for the fall; I don't know that I'm ready for winter. One season at a time, I guess.

It's 7:38 AM as I write this. I've a purring cat on my lap. I don't want to start the day.

On the other hand, I get to see friends at Foolscap at the end of it all. Guess I should get in gear....

PS—I would also like to say, just for the record, that I just love the GE ad that's been running lately on TV, the one with the elephant tap-dancing to "Singin' in the Rain." It just makes me grin every time I see it.

So I don't forget

With thanks to icebluenothing for finally giving me the source:

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Our Deepest Fear

by Marianne Williamson
from A Return To Love: Reflections on
the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

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I know a couple of people like this. I want to be this way, too. Every now and then I manage to be this person, this powerful, shining being.

I must remember.