Hello November

Let's welcome November! The month we focus on gratitude and abundance. Certainly that can be a daily thing, but what the heck, cheers to November! 

I love trees, in all their seasons. I have oft written of the naked trees of November. How we can love seeing them bare, unafraid to expose their inner workings. As Cynthia Rylant says, “I love the month of November: when the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.”

Can we not love ourselves in all our seasons?

This time of year is also full of sentiments of the rapid passing of time. Another year has zipped by. We have two months left of 2026. I agree with Henry Rollins who said, "The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully."

This whole year for me has been an inner journey into deeper realms of soul guidance. Spending my hours meaningfully has been a thing for a long time, but this year even more so. I am quite curious to see how my 2027 unfolds. Spirit keeps continually surprising me.

November has a unique beauty of its own. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen

It also feels sacred to me. “I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” – Dodinsky

I want to look at the sky and live. I want to feel every day that life is a gift.

For sure, autumn is a holy time. Every season is, and yet I have a little bit of George Eliot in me and might be this bird: "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

Much love,

In joy, 

Kelly

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” – Hal Borland

Previous joy letters here.

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