I'm Falling.....

Today I am feeling a little melancholy.  I don't really want to psycho-analyze myself but I think I get this way every year about this time.  My Dad died in October of 1986.  I don't remember too much about the day to day dealings- the mind has a way of dealing with shocking tragedy in that way- but I do remember it being chilly and rainy and overcast during his burial in Houston.  The weather seemed fitting because that is exactly the way I was feeling inside.  I think the turn of the season...summer flowing into fall brings back memories of time lost.  A grandfather not knowing his grandchildren.  A husband not holding his wife or kissing her good-bye one more time.  A child not being able to tell her Dad face to face that she loves him.  It is a melancholy day and I think I hate autumn.

For me, autumn also brings allergies or a cold.  My throat hurts; I feel achy; and I just don't have time to get sick.  I'm drinking hot coffee to loosen the phlegm in my throat.  I'm planning to eat that Campbell's chicken noodle soup for lunch.  There is something medicinal about chicken noodle soup!  Maybe it will also comfort my soul too.

But amongst all my melancholy today, I can with certainty shout:

Hallelujah! TGIF!!!!