Our senses lead us to embrace the outdoors. This season's holidays remind us to be thankful for our bounty and to have fun. It's a journey inward first experiential, then intellectual and finally into the collective unconscious. Like spring, fall is a season of transition, a reminder of the value of change, in this case from bright, buzzing, verdant summer toward the dark, quiet calm of winter. While we celebrate the seasonal joys, we should remind ourselves that they are blazes on a trail that goes deep into a beautiful forest of wisdom and meaning. The many elements of autumn either intrinsically deliver happiness or trigger memories of past joy from which we can keep taking bites, as from a freshly baked apple pie. The taste of pumpkin spice in everything. A warm, visually pleasing palate of reds, oranges and browns. The feel of cooler temperatures after a long summer.
