fall is on its way

Fall is... hot coffee, scarves, actually wanting to wear pants again, knitting, breaking out the extra blanket for the bed, hot chocolate on Sunday nights, pumpkin spice everything, red and yellow and orange leaves, drinking hot tea at night, football games, bonfires, "voot voot," s'mores with burnt marshmallows, Grandma's homemade chicken noodle soup, breaking out the ugly sweaters, all my TV shows come back, wearing lipstick all the time, back to school, new notebooks, trying to be more organized than last year, cardigans, freshly sharpened pencils, grilled sweet corn, BBQ chicken on the grill, blisters from new shoes, corn mazes, hay rides, apple picking, pumpkin patching, roasting pumpkin seeds, Halloween costumes, wearing boots again, crunching through leaves on the sidewalk, going for long drives to look at the trees, feeling lonely yet inspired, new craft projects, when Justin and I met for the first time, homemade Chex Mix, grandma making pie crust, quarts of pumpkin custard stock piled in the freezer, caramel apple sundaes from Adrian's, dark lipstick, winged eyeliner, doing my nails again, new hair cuts, the best golden hours, soft acoustic melodies, meditation podcasts, working through the hard things, change and reconciliation all in one.