autumn falls

The show goes on

and the sad-eyed sisters go walking on,

everyone watching all along...

the show goes on

as the autumn's coming

and the summer's all gone...

still without you, the show goes on...

- Bruce Hornsby -

September heralds both endings and beginnings...summer rises and drifts off into memory and autumn...autumn falls. The warm, celebratory days of summer come to an end as the grey, cool and welcoming, bittersweet days of autumn loom on the not-distant horizon. We head back to school and back to work...back to crisp, cool nights and soft, cloudy days...back to the bountiful times of harvest moons and Thanksgivings so close we can almost touch them...almost feel and taste and embrace them.

Autumn falls...quiet as the leaves quitting the grand old trees...soft as the memories (washed in shades of brown and gold and muted blue-gray) of years past with summers far too brief to suit the urge to be carefree in the sunshine and autumns too dear to linger as long as we would like them too once they have taken their annual turn on life's stage.

September...endings and beginnings...the passing of summer, the coming of autumn...autumn falls...and the sad-eyed sisters go walking on...and it's all more than all right.

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"The Show Goes On" words and music by Bruce Hornsby

recommended listening for soft autumn days and cool autumn nights:

"Scenes from the Southside" Bruce Hornsby and The Range

"Kind of Blue" Miles Davis

"Time Passes By" Kathy Mattea

"Genius Loves Company" Ray Charles (and Friends)

"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" Movie Soundtrack

"Harvest Moon" Neil Young