Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season at Chef2Chef

Autumn, with all its traditional images of colorful trees, frost-covered pumpkins, and piles of wood stored up against winter's cold, can be a season filled with anticipation. The harvest, the imminent onset of cold and snow, the resumption of old routines, and the beginning of the school year all require preparation and planning. If summer has been something of a pause, autumn helps us to see the passage of time more clearly.

Autumn is a season of fruition and reaping, of thanksgiving and celebration of abundance and goodness of the earth. But it is also a season that starkly and realistically encourages us to see our own limitations. Warm and stirring pieces by E. B. White, Anne Lamott, P. D. James, Julian of Norwich, May Sarton, Kimiko Hahn, and many others in this beautiful book rejoice in autumn as a time of preparation and reflection, when the results of hard labor are ripe for harvest.

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More than just a last breath of warmth and comfort before the cold of winter, autumn is a time of change and of endings, of work and of celebration, of harvest and of thanksgiving. From the first day of school to walking in fall-brightened fields to the winding of steeple clocks, Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season is the perfect companion for your own experience of the season.