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Pause now.  Take this gift of spaciousness and let it dissolve all your cares.   Carrying them won’t bring their solutions any faster.  And sometimes when you free yourself of them, new possibilities appear.

At any rate, you will be stronger, refreshed, revived by letting them go.  Just for now.  Just for this small interlude of calm, of quiet, of peace, where you can simply breathe and be.

See how winter has etched the day with subtle hues?  That is her clue, her offering, her wisdom.

Pause. Breathe. Be.

Today, for the first time in weeks, I got to walk in the fields.  As I rounded the bend that yielded the first glimpse of the back 18 acres, my heart leaped with joy.  The goldenrod was in bloom!

A field full of goldenrod is an amazing sight.  For me, it’s at once the golden crown of summer, given in celebration to mark its last days, and the first grand sweep from autumn’s palette. The intensity of the color takes your breath away, and you can’t help but be happy walking through it.

I call these season-spanning the days the golden days.  And how fitting, I think, is their color.  It’s the hue of balance, of the golden mean, placed between summer’s rampant growth and winter’s rest, between the sizzle and the freeze.  Everything’s nearly at its peak of maturity and fullness . . . the plants in the fields, the leaves on the trees, the spring’s generation of deer and rabbits, beaver and raccoons.  And the goldenrod shouts “Bravo! Well done!”

Time seems to pause, here at the year’s zenith, as if to give us the chance to take in the wonders the season has wrought before it passes away.  Soon it will crescendo into harvest time and painted leaves will dance and fall, bringing the play to a close.  But here, in the golden days, we have this chance to look about us at the magnificent abundance and to gather it with gratitude and gladness into our hearts.