Hello friend! My name is Amy. I am so happy you have stopped by ✨ If you are new here, a warm welcome to you! This space is where I meander through midlife, connecting to my true self through the seasonal shifts and simpler living, and seeking my inner wise woman. If you are also on this path and looking for someone to walk gently beside you, I see you and am here. Let’s color outside the lines together.
September always feels like a new beginning to me. Fall is my favorite season, and the entrance of crisp mornings and still balmy days makes my heart sing. As I follow the wheel of the year, harvest is the end of the growing cycle. It is the time to preserve and store food and prepare for the colder, darker months that are quickly approaching. That being the case, maybe coupled with the back-to-school season that is ingrained in all of us since childhood, fall always feels like the start of the year for me.
So it makes sense that this is the time of year that I’m always looking to re-do, update, and change up my planner/journal systems. Seriously, I have a problem with this! But over the last year, I’ve really honed in on what I can consistently do, what I love, and that I can make messy adjustments from time to time, and that is ok (enter my beloved erasable pens😂)
This year, I think I found the perfect setup for me. When I purchase planners, if there are pages with prompts that I don’t want to utilize, then I customize them to things that I will use. For example, whenever I start a new writing space, be it a planner, journal, or a combination of the two, which this book is, I place a copy of a blessing I wrote at the beginning of it.
These days of September and October, I find myself nesting a bit, transitioning myself and the house toward the idea of spending more time around hearth and home. Cooking and banking, warming foods, lighting soft fairy lights or candles to illuminate the earlier twilights, and washing and fluffing fresh throw blankets for the sofa. It is the perfect time for me to reflect and frame the year ahead, without the ‘pressure’ of resolutions, etc, for the New Year.
How do you approach the fall? Does it feel like a fresh page to you, too?
Until next time,
