My friend Rachel believes that “all the people who love fall are all the sentimental people, whether they know it or not”. I’d have to agree. There’s something about the end of the year, when the world appears to be on fire with color, that conjures up feelings of longing, nostalgia, sentimentality, and thinking about the past and what is gone. But it’s not a feeling of sadness. At the moment, I’m pretty darn happy with my life…much better than this time last year. I guess it’s a reminder that life keeps going in cycles – the bad and the good, everything takes it turn.

Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile. – William Cullen Bryant