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WELCOME NOVEMBER…

There is something about November that says ‘keep going’.

We are not quite through the year, yet the finish-line looms.

We are plunged into darkness by Mother Nature.

We are faced with the ‘season of joy’,

and yet many of us wonder where we will find it.

And I think November is a great time to take a little peek behind you,

and see just how much you’ve done.

To take stock of your achievements, your endurance,

your survival.

To rest, reinforce, before the festivities envelope us all.

Before beautiful new beginnings.

And most importantly, November is a time to seek out light.

As the natural order darkens, we must find it ourselves.

We must do whatever we can to brighten our day,

our home, the world.

Seek out light wherever you can my friends,

and pay no heed to those who condemn your sparkle.

You are much-needed.

Keep showing up, in that special way only you can do.

And show up for yourself too

(which can sometimes mean not showing up at all).

This year has been hard.

Again.

But beautiful.

Again.

As is the way of life.

As is the way of life.

-Donna Ashworth

 

 

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art credit: arthur rackham, british children’s literature illustrator, fall fairies from peter pan, 1906

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  7. It always seems like it is shorter than February! As a teacher we have Thanks giving break and parent conferences going on and it seems like it is over before it is over! On a weather side it is also the month with the greatest decrease in temperature! Sorry for ending on a down tempo!

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  18. love this and funnily I thought, seeing the illustration: Looks like something from Peter Pan…
    November is also the month where everyone with a depression knows that the worst time of the year has just begun. Illness gets the elderly and frail ones. We have no days any longer, because we get up in the night and have to put on the lights at 4pm, roll down the shutters at 4.30 so that we can’t be seen from the outside in every move, I light my fairy lights and candles everywhere. BUT I also enjoy the calm of the November days, the hot tea in a Christmas mug, the red wine ‘just to warm up a bit’, it’s the time where the wind blows the last leaves from the trees, they dance their last dance, I put chestnuts in my oven and look forward to wild, vigorously warming soups….
    And finally, it’s SO different to your ‘usual fare’ – no kids’ drawings, no toys stories, no, a real grown up poem – so beautiful too!

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  20. Beautiful painting and poem. Bear, Teddy and I keep showing up. We’re steadfast in our belief that it shoves the cosmos just a little in the good direction. I think we’d break into a thousand pieces without that. And I believe it’s true. “The surest way to defeat evil is to make steadfast progress in the good.” I-Ching 43 (I think)

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