Happy today

I'm happy today. There is a slight chill in the air, relative to summer, anyway. Fall is coming, you can feel it. You can smell it. The sky is beginning to flatten.

You ever notice that? The summer sun is high in the sky. It makes the sky look like a tall, round dome. The lower winter sun makes the sky look wider and flatter.

I am reminded that the earth and the people who live on it, in higher lattitudes, are preparing to sublimate. Dig in. Purge. Reinvent. It's very pagan.

I can't help thinking of the Peanuts gang. The Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas specials are burned onto my lower brain as blueprints of the coming seasons. If there's a "It's the 4th of July, Charlie Brown!" then I don't remember it. But, Linus with his Great Pumpkin and Snoopy as the Hero with a Thousand Faces... it's all so, well, pagan. Schultz caught the mood of the seasons as well as he did the archetypes of the characters. How many of my ideas about what is pagan and alchemical come from Charlie Brown and company?

Dig in. Sublimate.

Soon, I'll go see Jen, who likes to be mentioned on other people's blogs, and enjoy a fine meal at The Fox and Hound.

Cheers. Waes thu hal.