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Welcome, Autumn!  Let's celebrate with a few ordinary acts of paying attention to the ways earth's crammed with heaven in this season.  Here's some suggestions to get you started this week.  

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Read

The Heat of Autumn

BY JANE HIRSHFIELD

The heat of autumn

is different from the heat of summer.   

One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.   

One is a dock you walk out on,   

the other the spine of a thin swimming horse

and the river each day a full measure colder.   

A man with cancer leaves his wife for his lover.

Before he goes she straightens his belts in the closet,   

rearranges the socks and sweaters inside the dresser

by color. That’s autumn heat:

her hand placing silver buckles with silver,   

gold buckles with gold, setting each   

on the hook it belongs on in a closet soon to be empty,   

and calling it pleasure.

The Heat of Autumn by Jane Hirshfield

What Is the Autumnal Equinox?

They would work up the apples the next day (at Appalachian History) 

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Listen

My always-evolving Autumn playlist on Spotify

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Make

Slow Cooker Apple Butter 

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Watch

Classic Sesame Street film - Making Apple Cider

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Do

Wondering Through the Year, Emily Watkins

Host an apple testing get-together

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It is the summer's great last heat, 

It is the fall's first chill: They meet. 

–Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Share your favorite fall things with me in the comments below, on Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest.

Follow Tamara's board Autumn holidays & occasions on Pinterest.