Suumer Turns Toward Autumnmonth long meme

Today is a National Day of Prayer for Texas. Please remember them.

This is a house in my hometown. I love the porch!

Did anyone see summer?
She is still with us until September 21 when the autumnal equinox arrives but her appearance this year was odd. She seemed fleeting and furtive.
She was hot as blazes and chilly beyond belief and she bounced back and forth between bouts of torrential downpours and long drizzly days here on the east coast.
Now we are in hurricane season (don't get me started on geo and weather engineering ! Yes, it is a reality and yes, weaponized weather is real as well) and I don't like what I've seen since the Perfect Storm of 1991 and right up through Harvey. All very unnatural.
These things require prayer to combat. Lives are at stake in so many ways.
 Okay, that rant is over now.
 So, summer was different but they've been different in the past as well and I have learned that it is important not to rush the seasons away. And we do.
We find ourselves wishing it was summer, or fall or whatever. But we need to learn to value every day for what it is.
Find a reason to love each season, each day and make it work for you.  Life is short and so valuable while we are here.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller of blessed memory, said that life is a vestibule where we are waiting to go into the wedding.
Isn't that something?
What do we do in the vestibule?  We straighten our attire, we fix our hair, we make sure that we are presentable for the occasion and the weather doesn't matter does it? We make ourselves presentable anyway!
We talk to one another about  the great event until the doors open and the host tells us to enter.

Autumn will come soon enough and do what it will do, be what it will be.
Our job is to be more than we are, better than we have been and to do all that in the moment and time we have in this 'vestibule'.
Don't waste a moment!
Celebrate the the last of summer. Make it special right up until the very moment the equinox occurs on Friday, September 22 at 4:02PM EDT.

Remember: don't lose one minute!


Want to be part of a month long meme?  I don't think it's too late to join in.
Since we are 3 days in I will post the first three with my answers.

1.Were you raised in the town in which you were born? Where were you raised?
  Close to it. My town was tiny and had no hospital .
I was raised in a little suburb of Elizabeth NJ which is the county seat for Union County in NJ. My town was a mile square and had about 10,000 residents.

 2 Were either of your parents raised in your hometown? If not, how did they end up there?
 No.
My mother was from Frackville, Pennsylvania and came to NJ to work as a registered nurse when her brothers family and her mother moved to New Jersey.
My father was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After changing careers (he was a chemist and vice president of a chemical company) he opened a store with his  brother in town.


3. Were you raised in a town/city or in a rural area? Do you live in the same type of place now?
 I was raised in a small town.
It isn't exactly the same. My town now is very large in area, most of it water and small in scope.