November Nostalgia

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November is by far the best month of the year to ring in all sorts of feelings. 

One can’t escape nostalgia, for instance, brought in by the culminating Harvest season.   With most vegetable, grain and fruit hauled in from the fields, Harvest brings together people in quaint villages or urban circles into barns and kitchens for an inspiring community canning production.   An old practice, it still puts together many hands focused on a purpose to prepare, preserve, and store food for long winter season. 

Changing leaf colors of orange, red, brown or purple mixed with greens at their best display ever brings a feeling of repose and tenderness.  With cool winds’ entry, and soft sunrises or sunsets’ exploding colors in the horizon, the landscape simply ushers festive temperaments.  It is the time designated to gather projects of creative input into bazaars.  It is the laidback time to hold festivals into which friends, family and acquaintances could gather for never-ending merriment. 

November also gets us in reflective mood.  With Veterans Day Memorial mid of the month comes small and big commemoration of service to country by all forces of the military.  We are moved by the nobility and sacrifice given by our service women and men who keep our world safe, secure and free from malicious foreign invasion of the freedoms we truly hold sacred.  We are grateful for our military families’ resilience to live without their loved ones so that we could avoid harm’s way.

November unites us together as people and country.  In our circles, we get to demonstrate our gratitude for the many blessing and gifts we receive each day of the year.  Having an appointed, elected day to pause in the month of November for a Thanksgiving allows all of us to remember our roots – our families and the graces of family time it has afforded us!  We make fusses over celebrating in style some sort of togetherness, small or big.  We get to reminisce over challenges of growing up, economic battles, mobility changes that called for us to be apart as well as to come home.  We wallow in recalling times of great achievements and losses because both have made us strong and going.  We say thanks for all the good and not so good life experiences.  We give thanks for the opportunities life offers, and even those lost ones that brought us to our senses.  

The best days of November come in the very end.  We are joined in expectations and ushering the season of love – the deepest kind of love freely given to the faithful and to those God loves.  The last few days of November take us to strongly hold hope in our hearts, and fire up aspirations for a new year of life and grace!