The First Day of School!

I love the first day of school! I love the kids trudging down the street with their new backpacks and cute outfits. I love new pens and pencils, and binders with that plastic-y new smell. I love the promise of cooler days, leaves crunching under my feet and the crispness that comes with my favourite season. (OK – my current favourite. I actually can’t decide!)

The thing I love most about the start of school is the return to more ordered days and routines, classes and activities starting up again and an end to TV reruns! It spurs me to get more focused on what I want to accomplish before the end of the year and to add more of the things that nurture and delight me. It’s another reminder that as the seasons pass, I need to focus on what I most want my life to be about. Some have called the start of the school year a “psychological new year” and for me, it is.

As I contemplate the fall, I look at a list of things I want to accomplish before the end of the year. But I wonder about taking a course just to enrich my life. I consider taking a class in art or acting, two things I’ve always wanted to do “some day.” Maybe now is the time. I’d also like to carve out more time for reading, and for spending time with my nieces and nephews, who are growing up WAY too fast.

What about you? What is the change in season calling you to do? A class, a new activity, more time for you? Allow that psychological new year to spur you on to creating something new and satisfying in your life.