Scatter the flowers

  "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Great Gatsby August 22nd.  I did it.  I put up my fall decor in my house.  That's right - my house, my rules.  Many of you are gasping at the wildly unreasonable ridiculousness of that decision.  "Stop rushing summer out!  Just enjoy summer!"  I hear you but I don't agree.  I only endure summer so fall and winter come.   "Great Caesar's Ghost!"  "What in tarnation?" "Land Sakes Alive!" "Is she pulling my leg?" What prompted such an outlandish action was some yellow leaves on the ground from aspen trees in our yard.  I guess the drought is causing them to turn sooner than usual.  So I, too, went with that schedule.  But to my absolute horror other aspen leaves are just turning brown and crinkling up as a reaction to the drought.  No water, no color. I'm taking some pretty wide analogy liberties here, but it did...

  Google image "The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own', or 'real' life.  The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day."  ~ C.S. Lewis, Christian author & theologian Balance.  It's such a buzz word.  And yet, without it we can run off the rails, lose our chi, burn out, spin out of control, burn the candle at both ends, go haywire.. get my meaning?  There's a reason there are so many phrases for the same thing. Ever felt like we are at the end of our rope (haha one more)?  Like maybe for the 4th time this week and it's only Tuesday.  Whether you're a mom, part of the working force, a caregiver for parents or grandchildren, or all of the above - the "frazzled" button just pops on without notice. Only the notice really is there; we just ignore it til it goes off like an ala...