Rotation of the Seasons

new beginnings, season premieres, movies, theater, music, students back, freedom.

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Autumn is a time of new beginnings for me. The air positively crackles. Browsing through last Sunday’s Datebook I felt that delicious anticipation of all the season premieres. I will most likely never attend the opening of the symphony, ballet or opera but the energy of all that newness and creativity makes me feel hopeful.

I love reading about the new movies and marking the ones that sound interesting – I’m always happy when the summer action movies end. This is the time of year when they bring out the all the good stuff for the Oscars. Give me the relationship movies; the grit and the drama.

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And fall looks so beautiful! Check out the pumpkins and gourds at Whole Foods. Telegraph Avenue, usually gritty and gray, blooms into full color; oranges, reds, golden yellows. I can see the campanile on the Berkeley campus rising out of the morning fog on my way to work. I see the same trees that change colors every year and it brings me great comfort.  

And fall brings the kids back! Every year at this time on my way to work, I see a new crop of little beanies crossing the street to St. Paul’s school. And the older ones are back, too; college students strutting down Telegraph; oh, so confident, oh so young!  I recall sweet memories of a much younger Karla in her first days at the University of Wyoming. The freedom of that first season away from home was exhilarating! Nothing felt like that! Remember?

Fall always reminds me of freedom; the freedom to re-invent myself, the freedom to re-invent my life. Let us celebrate this new beginning together!