When my granddaughter, Sarah, was a toddler, we had a small slide in our
yard for her. In Autumn, when the leaves started falling, my husband would
gather a big pile of leaves and put them at the bottom of the slide so
she could slide down into them. How she loved doing that. Pure joy
!

Time passed, and she outgrew the slide, but her PaPa would still gather
leaves for her to jump in. She’d wind up covered with leaves from
head to toe. I think I have a picture of her somewhere,
leaves dangling from her hair and a huge smile on her face.

As we come to a different season, I wish you all the joy of Sarah’s childhood
Autumns and the delight her PaPa and I felt in watching her enjoy them.

If you’re not in a place where joy comes easily to you right now, I hope
that sweet memories of happier times will comfort and sustain you.

— Nancy

There’s a miracle in every new beginning.
— Hermann Hesse

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