Autumn Days….In Amble of Happiness

I can’t say that I have a favourite season, I love all the seasons for different things. I love driving out on a crisp winter day and seeing snow on the mountains and love snuggling under a blanket in the warmth of the glowing ‘heatpump’ (is it meant to do that!) I love Spring for that feeling of hope and new life and the abundance of blossoms. Summer for me means long sunny days and less ironing (I can knock those wee summer tops off in seconds!) And then there is Autumn. I’ve just been biking in the forest, it’s a beautiful Autumn day, there were kids out on their bikes with their friends that took me right back to my own childhood when we used to ride off on our bikes with our ‘picnic’ to Glass Hill near the ferry, not as pretty as my beautiful forest but good times if I’m not being too sentimental! It’s the smell of Autumn that I love the most though, the one that comes from damp leaves lying on the forest paths, an earthy smell that somehow makes you part of what’s around you rather than just an observer, which is what I’ve been recently.

My bike ride made me think of the journal I started writing a couple of years ago. It’s not one of those “…and then I went to the supermarket…..it was very busy….!”, but one that explores my own experience of happiness. The writing was inspired by someone close, who had lost their way a little and had all but forget what happiness felt like. In their questioning of me and my experience I started writing ‘In Amble of Happiness’, which was a collection of descriptive writing that attempted to put into words those feelings of joy, peace and wonder that you can experience in the course of your daily life if you look for it or leave yourself open to it.

Now that the warmth and sunshine is creeping back into my life, I’d like to share some of that writing, so watch this space!