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As we swing into fall …

... do you see how the sun is drifting lower? How the night air now tingles with hints of cool? How our senses tell us that change is afoot, with some things turning over and under and away? What is the deeper message for me during this time of transformation? What is the deeper message for you?

I wrote last month about beauty, about finding it. Then, literally the very day after I wrote to you, I got Covid again, for the second time in four months. Yes, it came on the first day of my trip to Lake Michigan with Max and Billie. I did get quite sick, as did Max. And then, in the midst of all that, Billie got a call from Ramsey County, with whom they’d been recently licensed as a foster parent. The call was to let them know a placement was about to take place, a beautiful 21-month-old boy, who, on the day after we got home from Michigan, became a wonderful, hilarious, extremely energetic and incredibly wise member of our family, for now. Our family, which already is beyond blessed with fo…