Set the Tone

What's your wish?

Every year around this time I look at the trees and think to myself,

Sometimes it’s best to leave some things undone and watch the leaves fall.

I’m clearing up my desk and with it, my mind. Things no longer needed are crinkling and falling away to the steady beat of temperatures dropping. Look to the ember ember rainbow above and below and it’s hard not to feel it. Something is burning away.

The landing of autumn brings a mulchy magic and creates a special kind of clearing. Space is being made amid the decay — What will you do with it?

We just turned the clocks back here in the UK, and darkness descended shortly after 4:30pm in Scotland where I sit at the time of writing this. I’m watching the autumn tide come in, pulling a thick, slate blanket up over the beach.

What does this moment feel like to you? Have you noticed your body responding? How are you connecting to the light that’s still there, each day? The year is yawning, inviting us back inside, and asking, How will you move into the colder, darker months ahead?

Opening November with a practice to set the tone — a moment to make a wish…