A visit to Niagara Falls is always exciting. No matter what the season, the splendor of this great cascade of water remains. I took all the images for this collage yesterday morning. The leaves have changed colour and some have fallen. This is why this season is called Fall. Niagara is beautiful this time of year.
As with the seasons that change year after year, we too have our seasons of life. Being so close to Nature as I was yesterday, brought home to me with poignancy, that I too am in the Autumn of my life. After years of struggle with this stage of the journey, I am beginning to grow into it. It’s beginning to feel more comfortable now.
The trees are shedding their leaves and I too am shedding my attachment to “things.” This is a time to truly delve into the depths of my own soul and discover what truths may be hidden there. I’m not interested in the rat race anymore.
What still remains to be done? What contribution can I make that will be good for myself and for everyone else? This Fall season of my life is also the time to shed old thoughts, beliefs, and fantasies, that are no longer true for me. Just as the leaves don’t all change or fall at the same time, so it is with me. It is alright for this process to happen in its own time.
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made. -Rachel Naomi Remen
Hope you enjoy “Fall at Niagara Falls.”