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Show linden tfce! il lA 66 By CAROL LEMON J hardly begun. Others experience ex-perience many long winters before their time comes. None of us will escape the Call, nor should we fear the end. It, too, is a part of the whole of Life. The question only When? Sad endings? Springtime like youth, IS a beautiful time, full of laughter, beauty, beau-ty, activity AND error. One day dawns warm and pleasant, pleas-ant, the next - frosty; one morning comes clear and calm - the next accompanied by chill winds of- hurricane proportions. We send forth the bud and blossom only to lose them to the unexpected unex-pected display of Winter's unwilling departure. Spring has much to learn. Summer is busy to the point of being hectic - a sometimes frenzied rush -Reproduction is the Issue. Plant and animal life both struggle to guarantee the survival of their species. We experience warm and delicious days, full of work, accented with pleasure - a truly delightful time of season seas-on - and Life. In Autumn the pace slows only slightly. We still seek to be fruitful useful. Harvest Har-vest is noi ended only slowed, and we still have time to savor , to participate par-ticipate fully, but at our own pace. We finally find time to enjoy the fruits of that which we struggled to hard to achieve. We can make plans for the next round. How to make it more productive, pro-ductive, more enjoyable, so that each day will be a welcomed wel-comed guest. Rewards are everywhere around us. Death rattle or pleasurable sigh of contentment content-ment and relief? The choice is ours. There are those who loudly loud-ly proclaim the praises of each season as it comes along. Some favoring one-others one-others another, with reasons as varied as the personalities personali-ties of the individuals them -selves. Recently the Spanish Fork Press carried an article listing reasons why the writer writ-er thought Autumn was the best season of the year. Press Writer, B. Davis Evans had other thoughts. 'Not so, said he, and his story went like this: "It isn't my favorite. Autumn is when one hears the wind become stronger just before dawn and it moans across ac-ross the countryside. It's the forerunner of the horrible coming events. It's summer sum-mer with a death rattle in it's throat. It represents the death of the good times, unless a person looks forward to the cold misery of the ski slopes or the sno-mobile sno-mobile trails. Autumn is the beginning of the end. Spring is the awakening awak-ening time, the resurrection, accompanied by cooling rains, calm breezes and the fresh greenness of nature. It tells us that there's a new beginning; new beginnings begin-nings are much more interesting in-teresting than sad endings. Spring is like life, when young we feel immortal, while Autunr, is sorta like I am: I'm realizing how un-immortal I really am." To each his own, as the story goes, but I see it from i a different point of view. Forerunner of horrible events? Nature prepares all of her Creations - Man j included - for that which J is to come. Plants go dor-1 dor-1 mant, locking their vigor i and strength deep beneath i the protective covering of earth. SHU vibrant - still capable of growth. Resting, just biding their time until un-til the right moment to burst forth in beauty again. I Death of the good times? Doesn't the golden glow of Autumr. signify contentment? content-ment? Another year of growth and fruition? Satisfaction Satis-faction that we overcame -we conquored what lay before be-fore us in the early Spring -We planted, tended, reaped. reap-ed. The Harvest was boanti-j boanti-j ful. Shelves and cellars are full, firewood is stacked by ! the back fence, barns are " bulging. Let whatever lies ahead come. We're ready. Beginning of the end? The end was with us from the beginning. For some, the end comes before Spring has DANCE CLASSES BEGIN FOR ALL AGES The Dance Classes of Jo-hann Jo-hann Myers will begin Tuesday, Tues-day, September 16, in Milford Mil-ford ElementarySchoolMul-ti ElementarySchoolMul-ti -Purpose Room. Pre -school, Kindergarten and First Grade 4 to 5 p.m.; Second, Third and Fourth Grades, 5 to 6 p.m.; Fifth, Sixth and Seventh -6 to 7 p.m.; Adult Aerobic and other from 7 to 8 p.m. There is still time to register, and registration may be done the day of the class. Students may also join after the classes begin. |