Life Tools: Loving Autumn Part 3 By Susan Hanniford Crowley

The beginning of my Lady Fallon’s Drago ns series. The next book coming out in 2025.

The Life Tools today continue on ‘Loving Autumn.’ The Fall foliage is passing already, some trees already bare. Some still hold their brilliance of orange, yellow, and red.

Autumn speaks to my heart like no other season. The blending of all this splendor into winter’s cold solitude, can make a person feel lonely. Don’t feel lonely. I watched a documentary where scientists explained that trees and plants in nature communicate with one another with their roots.

Changing the subject for a moment, I do admit that I love snow. Not the shoveling part, but the falling flakes each different from the other. I love examining each flake as up close as possible.

The blending part between the seasons has its own adventures calling to me. I’ve never been good with adventures. Walking blindly into something new sets the butterflies in my stomach to growl. It’s best to go on an adventure with a friend.

What can I do to live through this transition that many feel but never realize or talk about? Let’s see.

1. Go on an adventure with a friend. Or several friends.
2. Make a list of what you’d like to do knowing up front you’re not going to do them all and that’s okay.
3. Make out your Christmas cards and mail them. A friend does this every year and is proud to know her card reaches every one first.
4. Learn a new computer program just for fun.
5. Learn from the elders in your family your roots. If you don’t have access to your roots, learn instead about the roots or history of your country. Go to places that inspire your heart historically.

Aside: Being an author, I feel like a tree in the forest. I am connected to all the other authors through their and my roots. I have visited the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT., the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and the home of Robert Burns in Dumfries, Scotland among others. (links go to their museums) What historical figures are you inspired by?

6. Take a nap.
7. Take a bubble bath.
8. Get some books for your winter reading. If you already have books you haven’t read, make a to-read list. Graphic novels and comic books do count.
9. Admire the scenery of where you are and on any trip you go on. Day trips included. Take photos.
10. Invite friends over for a movie night or a feast. (You don’t have to wait until Thanksgiving to have a feast.)

Whatever you choose, be save, and keep those you love safe.

All the best always,
Susan
Susan Hanniford Crowley, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother

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Now we wait
for the return of the princess.