Embracing Change: Reflections on Autumn and Community Spirit

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That's not what I'm saying, but anyways.

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So here's some news.

A friend of mine, her and I have been sitting together for a couple of months doing light duty together.

She's been pregnant and I've got my foot issue.

Well, this weekend she had her baby.

And he's a beautiful little thing, you know, he sent me a couple of pictures today of him all cuddled up in his blanket and his little cute little stocking cap and he is adorable as can be, folks.

And if you have ever seen a two or three day old baby, they're all cute as can be.

But this one is, is hers and her husband's and I am positive that they are ecstatic about this.

He is in the presence of good parents to be.

How do I know this?

I know her and she talks about her husband a lot, so I think that this is great.

I'm happy as can be for her, her husband and for the new baby and her mother who came in.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, her mother came in, flew in from out of state to be with her, to help her with this, help her get going.

And I think that that's fantastic.

And never having been blessed to have children in my life of my own, I have to preface that of my own.

I don't know this experience but boy, I could just tell from how she was talking about it that she was ecstatic as can be.

So good luck to you and your husband, sweetie, and you know who you are.

I'm not gonna gonna say your name here on the podcast because I don't need your name out there if you don't want it to be.

So there's that.

So yes, congratulations.

And there is a newborn child in this world.

And folks, I hope that, and I pray that things get better in this world, that he has a better place to be than his parents do or I do.

I'm not saying this is a bad place, but there's always tensions going on and maybe by the time he gets to be that, that age where it really starts to affect him, most of these things that are going on in the world will not be as affected, effective or as prominent.

So it doesn't affect him.

That's what I wish for him and pray for him and for all the children, my nieces and nephews, they.

I want them to grow up in a world where it's fun to be around, not you've got to worry about everything you say, every place you go and all that kind of hoo ha.

Okay, that's enough about that.

So what else is going on in this wonderful world of ours?

I don't know.

Besides it being fall.

The one thing I'll tell you what I miss, folks, this is going, it's going to start being that beautiful time of year up north in America and I'm sure all over the world when it turns fall, you have the colors change on the trees, which is part of the cycle.

You know, they, they turn colors and they Fall off and, you know, then you rake them up and then the trees are bare for winter, going down a little bit of a hibernation stage.

And then you come alive in spring and start to bud.

And then you get green leaves or whatever color leaves you're supposed to have.

I miss the changing of the colors in the plant life as well as the trees.

When I lived up in Michigan, having been there recently and being a little nostalgic right now about.

About home, I miss that part.

That's something that I do miss about living up north.

You get changing of colors down here in the fall, but it's.

It's not like up north where it's like fantastically beautiful.

And there's better words than that.

And I'm sorry, there are better words than that, but I can't think of one right now.

But it's just majestically beautiful.

There we go.

I like that one.

Majestically beautiful.

How about that?

You know, that's not bad.

Majestically beautiful.

The colors and colors are one thing, folks.

Don't get me wrong.

There's a lot of other things about fall that I love.

Up north.

College football, that is a great time of year to be up there.

And high school football, because you can go to the football games at your local high school, you know, during the fall and watch the high school.

You can do that down in Florida, don't get me wrong.

But up north, it's a little more.

How do I say this?

It's a community thing.

Yes.

Some of these high schools down here in the surrounding community, but like, I'm not going to go back to Kissimmee to go watch the Cowboys play because that's the name of the, the Osceola High School football team, the Cowboys.

I'm pretty sure about that.

I'll have to double check that.

But where I might go back home.

If you were back home, it's easier to go over to Memorial Stadium at Port Huron High School and watch, you know, Port Huron High School play or to run over to Northern High School and, and watch their football team play on a Friday night.

You know, it's.

It's a Friday night.

It's something to go do.

Right?

It's.

It's a community thing.

So there's that part of community I miss.

But that's so much fun up north.

And if you live up north, lucky for you, I mean, you get, you get these rivalries too, with football and the high schools up north.

It's just fun as can be.

So there's that.

There's another thing that you can't get away from up north when it comes to fall.

And that's the smell.

Now you would think.

Okay, okay, Dave.

Yeah, there's a smell.

There is when the leaves change and sometimes they have, they allow burning of these leaves.

Some cities do, some cities don't.

But it's not just the burning of these.

There's just a freshness and a different scent in the air when it comes to fall.

And, and I love that.

It's just also like when winter hits and you get that first snow and you walk outside and yes, it's cold and you breathe in and you're breathing in fresh, clean air.

Well, fall is giving you a different kind of clean air.

It may not be as clean as you think, but it's still fresh and it's still very, very pleasant to the nose.

And it brings back fond memories of times of, of, of your past, you know, your childhood, whatever.

So those are the things that, that I mess up north with fall.

And both my brothers who live back up there are, are getting to the point in time of the year where they're going to start experiencing that.

And I'm excited for them because I did, I, I did.

And I do love watching fall come in.

You know, down here, if it gets below, I don't know, 70, I've got a sweatshirt and sweatpants on hanging around the house.

Or if I go out to do something where up there you get to wear sweaters, jackets, coats.

Yeah, that, that may sound like a, a pain to those that live there all the time, but for those of us who have left, that'd be kind of fun.

You know, a friend of mine's son moved to Michigan a few years ago and he was born and raised in Florida.

He, he loves it there.

He, I remember is explaining to me the first time he saw snow, real snow in person, because you can, you can have snow down in Florida, it's take.

But up there it was real.

And he's, he, he enjoys living there and he's happy.

So I'm happy for him.

I think it's a great thing.

You know, fall, he's coming into that great time right now for at fall that he's, he needs to be outside and, and smelling and looking and, and doing all these things and experiencing all these things at Michigan and up north in the United States has to offer and I'm sure other countries have the same thing.

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Let me know what it's like where you live when the seasons change, especially going from summer to fall.

I really am interested.

I would like to know.

This has become very important to me in the last, last few months since my sister in law passed.

I really feel that that's a part of things that I want to be more involved with.

So let me know.

I'm really, really curious because I looked it up today and I've got people from Germany and Russia, Australia.

I've got people from.

Oh goodness, where did it go?

Austria, India, Great Britain, Canada, and of course the U.S. listening.

And for those of you that don't live in the US oh thank you so much and thank you for those of you in the United States, listen, I appreciate that.

I really, really do.

So hey, you know, it's, it's a wonderful world we live in and it's 24 hour world we live in now too.

But it's, you think about it.

This just makes, makes me feel good.

I'm having a conversation with you and if you're living in Germany or Russia or India or China or where or Australia and you're listening to me, makes me a pretty happy and proud person to know that I can, I can reach somebody over there.

So thank you.

Thank you very much.

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