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This is so beautiful Poorna and made me tear up on the train . Last Friday I wrote about how I love autumn but after a painful break-up over the summer and having to put my dog to sleep last month, all the things I shared and loved about the season were making me feel so overwhelmingly sad. I made a list of all the things I want to do this season to make new memories just for me, whilst keeping the nostalgia of the happier times. I love how you said meeting the day where you are at.x

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So beautifully written šŸ’› November is my hardest month. Itā€™s the one where grief feels the closest. Sending you all the love Poorna and I absolutely do think you should make the cottage pie āœØ

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I am sorry that this time of year is expecially hard for you and I hope all those little things you have described bring comfort. I find the thought of winter looming ahead hard, as it always seems to drag on so long. Since moving the the countryside and getting a garden (and getting into gardening) buying bulbs and squirrelling them away has become a little ritual that helps me enormously. A reminder that spring will come x

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Something changed after I came down with Covid in the autumn of 2020; every autumn after that has been extremely difficult. Thank you for sharing your poignant writing with us, and sending you strength and light.

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So many beautiful lines. "...my husbandā€™s soul, which blooms in some of the pots he left behind." "...while some celebrate an extra hour in bed, I mourn the time that feels subtracted." "This year I may just meet the day as it comes, and remember that the moment the clocks change, we are travelling along the arc to a time when it will change again, moving forward into light and new life." I am sorry to read of your loss (those words feel unintentionally terse as I can't imagine such grief). Thank you for sharing your wonderful words.

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Thank you Elaine ā¤ļøā¤ļø

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This time of year is objectively the absolute worst. It just has a dark energy to it that weighs me down. Give me the bleak misery of January over the foreboding of October/November any day šŸ˜’Your little garden sounds lovely, especially your dadā€™s reaction to it šŸ˜Œ And oh, that line about whoever calls this place home now ā€“ I know that feeling šŸ’”

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