Monday Musings No. 236 | On the Eve of Fall, an Organ Concert and a Book About Books

Tomorrow at 8:04 pm it is officially fall, which my calendar and my ancestors have been waiting for all summer

Tomorrow at exactly 8:04 pm, it is fall. I will be waiting for it the way Charlie Brown waited for the Great Pumpkin. Faithfully, hopefully, and probably a little foolishly.

Sadly there will not be a miraculous drop in temperatures. They are going down slowly, nothing like the falls of my childhood or the images that flood social media every September. I know I live in the South. But my brain does not entirely recognize that. It is going by the calendar, and perhaps by my genes. I have generations of ancestors who were born and lived in the Midwest their entire lives. Or it could simply be that I am hot and very ready for cozy season. Probably all three.

This weekend was wonderfully lazy. Friday night, an organ concert, which was fascinating and beautiful. There is something about organ music in a chapel. Saturday was movie night, and Sunday a slow day of laundry and mail and my weekly call with my dad. I have a big week coming up, so the rest felt welcome. What about you, how was your weekend?

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What I’m Reading

This week I finished No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister one of my favorite authors. 

Alice has always wanted to write. Her talent is real but her stories stay safe, held back, until a devastating event breaks her open and she writes a novel that surprises even herself. That novel then goes out into the world and finds its way to a handful of readers. A teenager hiding her homelessness, a free diver pushing himself past his limits, an artist furious at everything around her, a bookseller looking for love, a widower in the early days of grief. Each reader finds something entirely different inside Alice’s pages. Each one is changed by it in a way the others would never predict.

It is a book about how we read, how we bring ourselves to a story and take away something no one else could have found there. The kind of novel that makes you want to go back to a book you love and read it all over again with new eyes.

What I Watched

This week I watched Hannah Adkins one of my favorite YouTube channels and the perfect watch for the eve of fall. Hannah lives in the Cotswolds and she is a fellow fall lover, which is enough for me. This week she covers books, apple pie, life in the English countryside and all the things that make this season worth waiting for. If you have never watched her, this is a very good place to start.

Outfit of the Day

Brown and blue and one of my favorite Fall color combinations. This week I paired a cropped trench, with a white buttone down, a blue and brown striped sweater and brown accessories, including shoes and a bag.

Outfit Seperates

I hope that you enjoyed this mornings musings. If you missed Weekend Meanderings, Kim, Juliet and I had lots to share this week. Come say hello.

Tell me Fall lovers, did you feel it shift even a little this weekend? Leave a note in the comments. 

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Have a beautiful week, friends.

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