Happy First Full day of Fall!

During this morning’s round trip to pick up this week’s Community Supported Agriculture [CSA] share box, I saw two separate, large flocks of turkeys, four whitetail deer does, two singles and one pair, a large flock of Canada geese feeding in a hay field and a solitary goose in the air. I made the trip before today’s rain had begun and returned with:

• BUTTERNUT SQUASH
• JALAPEÑOS
• KALE BOUQUET
• RED POTATOES
• SWEET PEPPERS
• TOMATOES, and
• YELLOW ONION

Since our first full day of autumn is cloudy, rainy and unseasonably cool, I'm reheating the Better Half's Wednesday’s chili for tonight’s supper. And yes, the furnace is on!

My trip this morning came close to being magical. There was a thin layer of clouds overhead and a darker bank of storm clouds off to the West. That gave the sunlight that occasionally broke through an enhanced quality. The shuffled play list in the Jeep, midway to the CSA pickup, began playing Joni Mitchell’s marvelous autumn song, the Urge for Going. This came after a handful of songs that started with her wonderful Both Sides Now. By the time I arrived home with an armful of vegetables (in a reusable plastic bag) I was feeling more than a little mellow and nostalgic. I could definitely use more morning trips like today’s as a counterbalance to much of what’s going on in the rest of the world.

One way to begin to address what’s wrong with the world is to elect a better class of politicians. With very few exceptions, Democrats are better than Republicans. As someone noted on social media this morning:

GOP "platform" bans

Early voting in Minnesota starts today. Please remember the above when you fill out your ballot.  We should help the GOP to an

Urge For Going

by Joni Mitchell

I awoke today and found 
the frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky 
then it gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold 
and all the trees are shivering in a naked row...

I get the urge for going
But I never seem to go

I get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
And summertime is falling down and winter is closing in

I had a man in summertime
He had summer-colored skin
And not another girl in town
My darling's heart could win
But when the leaves fell on the ground
And bully winds came around
and pushed them face down in the snow...
He got the urge for going
And I had to let him go

He got the urge for going
When the meadow grass was turning brown
And summertime was falling down and winter was closing in

Now the warriors of winter give a cold triumphant shout
And all that stays is dying all that lives is gettin' out
See the geese in chevron flight 
Flapping and racing on before the snow...
They've got the urge for going
And they've got the wings to go

They get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
And summertime is falling down and winter is closing in

I'll ply the fire with kindling now
I'll pull the blankets up to my chin
I'll lock the vagrant winter out
And I'll bolt my wandering in
I'd like to call back summertime
And have her stay for just another month or so...
But she's got the urge for going
So I guess she'll have to go

She gets the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
And all her empire's falling down
And winter's closing in.

And I get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
And summertime is Falling Down.

This lyric has been formatted exactly as Joni preferred it to appear (capitalization, punctuation, line breaks, changes in wording, etc). Joni collaborated with Lisa and John Sornberger by making these changes for presentation in their book, Gathered Light.

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