"An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient." I find that Autumn is essential for me. It reminds me that seasons come and go, and to embrace the beauty in the transitions. It is an interim season, one that invites looking back to the growth of the past and ahead to the changes that will come. It's chilly evenings out by the fire pit, seeing the stars spread across the night sky as the sun drops behind the horizon's shoulder. It's shuffled leaves on woodland hikes and rustling leaves, like rainfall, as the winds pass through them in the canopy above.