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September: The Year Begins

Welcome to September, or, as I like to think of it, welcome to the death of August, the cruelest month. Here in my subtropical part of the world, September is not especially cooler than August, but climate is not the point; psychology is. September is a sign that we are headed in the right direction, […]
Autumn 2012, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Autumn 2012, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris

Welcome to September, or, as I like to think of it, welcome to the death of August, the cruelest month.

Here in my subtropical part of the world, September is not especially cooler than August, but climate is not the point; psychology is. September is a sign that we are headed in the right direction, away from the unrestrained misery of a Louisiana summer, into the gentle Louisiana autumn and tolerable Louisiana winter, followed by the glorious Louisiana spring.

To be sure, autumn anywhere is my favorite season. The best thing about living in New York City and later in Philadelphia is that autumn really looks and feels like autumn in those places. We cheated last fall, enjoying a holiday in Paris in October, which gave us an autumn more intense (and, alas, more rainy) than what we would have had back home. It will be quite some time before it really feels like fall here, and it will never feel like fall in more northerly latitudes. But the point is simply that we are headed in the right direction, and boy, does that ever make a difference in my mood. I have reverse seasonal affective disorder, I think: summer is the most depressing season to me.

September means hope. It means rebirth. It means we have endured the worst, and come through it, and can now relax and enjoy life again. I think of it like this: September:Southerners::March:Yankees.

I recognize that there are many Southerners who disagree with me. They are wrong, so there. šŸ˜‰

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