New York Fall and The Impending Winter.

This morning when I woke up and looked out the window I saw my very first Fall tree that had lost every single leaf and, against the rainy day gray sky, looked so sad. I sighed and counted and named the months ahead in my mind. November, December,January....I just stopped because I didn't want to torture myself with the cold and tree-less outlook. It was 48 degrees, rainy, gray and bleary here today. No green, no blue sky, no sunshine is just no fun. The philosophy that we 'need the bad to appreciate the good' (ie: dark gray and cold makes you appreciate warm and sunny) is CRAP! I was speaking to a guy the other day from Barbados and just as another guy was preaching that philosophy, he chimed in and said in his warm as tropics accent "I grew up in Barbados my whole life, 33 years, and I NEVER got tired of it, it was beautiful and it made me so happy. I miss it!" I high fived him and told him I was with him! So, here's to making it through the Fall and Winter with grace...ugh...