Fall

After a season of rapid growth and blossoming so characteristic of summer fall invites you to sit back, reflect, savor, celebrate and surrender. In your metaphorical autumn, you allow life lessons to integrate back into the soil of your Inner Garden. You recall the joys and sorrows of the year that has passed, acknowledging both milestones and setbacks. And then you let go, knowing that life events are transitory and the cycle of the seasons begins again. This transition brings both pleasure and sadness. It s not easy to witness such beauty, grace and ripening without holding on. Yet when you do, you leave with the treasure of rich memories. The women who have written for this final volume in the Tending Your Inner Garden series of anthologies have harvested the fruits of an ever-changing life. They offer their remembrances, gratitude, realizations and guidance. Read their essays and poems, and then turn to the journaling questions at the back of the book to feast on the bounty of your own life.