WELCOME, AUTUMN!

Here she is! Autumn promenading the avenues and lanes in the earliest of her colors. In another few weeks, we'll be treated to the full wardrobe--and if we look carefully, we'll discover every color in the rainbow. Or maybe in the Crayola big box!

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To celebrate Autumn's arrival, we'll look at a full week of Things That Happen(ed)--quotations and information gleaned from A Pilgrim's Almanac, by Edward Hays (Forest of Peace Books, Inc. - 1989)

Today - September 22nd - Birthday of the Ice Cream Cone!

1903 - Italo Marchiony (Italian immigrant) applies for a patent for his new creation--cold sweet ice cream served in its own edible container. No throw-away there!

It's also the Autumnal Equinox in the northern hemisphere--but don't expect the daylight hours to be evenly divided; my weather app reports we've still a dozen minutes to go to the balance point.

Tomorrow - September 23rd - another thought about the Equinox

"In 'flat-world' terms, on the day of the Equinox the sun rises over the earth due east and sets due west; day and night are of equal length." I like the concept of a round earth.

September 24th - another invention

Invention of False Teeth, about 500 BC. "The Empress Josephine, Napoleon's wife, often carried a rose which she would raise to her lips when smiling. Very sensitive about her bad teeth, she used the rose to hide them."

September 25th - an adage

Festival of Giving Advice - Reflect on this saying of Confucius:

"Do not teach a ripe person, for it is a waste of person. Do not teach a person who is not yet ripe; it's a waste of words."

September 26th - Birthday Boy

Johnny Appleseed born this day in 1774. Known for planting apple trees across America, he was "revered by Native Americans who looked upon him as a medicine man. Besides his planting, his practice was to tear out a page from the bible he carried . . . a page containing a passage which fit the situation ofe the family with whom he spent the night."

September 27th - New Horizon Day

"Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador, became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean"--this day in 1513.

September 28th - Feast of St. Wenceslaus

He was "Duke of Bohemia, the national hero and patron saint of Czechoslovakia." Murdered by his stepbrother at the door of a church he was about to enter. (I prefer to think of him as the Good King Wenceslaus, though that might be a different person.)

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There you have it--the first week of Autumn. This may be the winding-down of the year, but that doesn't have to be a negative thing. Season follows season--spring brings new life, summer is the growing season, autumn sees our harvest, and winter allows us to rest. Enjoy the day before you!

Blessings from Thursday's Child