The perils and delights of Fall

 A friend of mine calls them "The Autumn Fears." I love this term. I think it's about that strange feeling, deep down, that we need to be doing something just now, at every moment, something needs to be done and if we don't do it, well, something awful may come of it. Usually just before Spring.

After some mulling on this term, and after feeling a bit of the Autumn Fears myself, I've come to the conclusion that this is an ancestral condition, inherited from our very ancient agriculturalist pas...