It’s full on fall here in The North Woods.

Literally on the 1st, it seemed the weather just shifted. I’m sitting outside with The BF’s warm sweater and a blanket wrapped around me. I have quite the lake view here on the dock. What is it about water that is so damn soothing?

With the shift of the season, I feel something in me shifting, too. Or it could be a sign that I’m getting a little restless for home.

Whatever it is, I’m ready for a change – in the weather and in my life. Maybe this is also connected with marriage – more changes, more new.

It’s feeling like fresh beginnings and new possibilities. Two things I always readily welcome.

Although … I always do have a hard time leaving the places I love. It’s comforting coming back year after year. There’s safety and consistency in that. I’m sure that’s one of the reasons I feel the constant pull back to Paris.

But we will be back and it will feel as though we never left. Life continues on in the way that it does and I’m embracing the next continuation.

Maybe that should be my fall theme, embracing. I’ve never had a theme, with anything. I’ve tried before but then I just forget. When the caterer asked me if I was having a theme, I just laughed. How the hell would I be able to pull off a wedding theme when I can’t remember any sort of life theme?!

Perhaps it’s time I give it the old college try … Embracing, how hard could it be to remember that?