As I sit back on the morning train, sipping a 7/11 Pumpkin Spice Latte, I find myself reminiscing. It had only been a couple years now that Pumpkin Spice hit the market which I think is due to Starbucks. Luckily, other popular coffee spots, Dunkin Donuts & 7/11, also joined in.
Now I'm not reminiscing about coffee, but where the flavor brings me.
It makes me think back to Pumpkin Patches with Logan. Trick or treating on my childhood street. Driving down Bethpage Parkway just to enjoy the changing leaves. I love autumn.
In the last three weeks, to the day, I lost my dad, celebrated the anniversary of his mother and father's deaths, 11/1 was Nanny and today, 11/3 is Papa's. I don't think any of these have ruined my love of this season. Instead, I try to understand how seasons change, lives change, and everything completes its own cycles.
Perhaps its the beautiful palette of this season, that allows me to still love God's beauty. I don't understand any of it, but my faith in the universe stays intact. So, I will continue to sip my latte, look out the window, and remember with a smile all the things I love about fall.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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