Five minute Friday: Welcome

I'm trying something a little new today.  I'm joining up with Lisa-Jo Baker and the Five Minute Friday gang over at her blog, Gypsy Mama, for a little free writing.  Everyone is given a prompt to write on, with little or no editing, for five minutes only.  So the prompt today is "Welcome."

Here we {GO}.

I'm traipsing through a shag carpet of leaves, cloth bag slung across my body, bumping soft on my hip.  Thirty-one year old woman turned ten year old girl, age no longer matters.  I am simply collector of beauty. 

Summer is passing the torch to autumn in a blaze of glory, and here I am to gather treasures from the ground.  The trees shed their clothes, bleeding out crimson, persimmon and gold in piles around their feet.  

And I awe, girl-child fully alive in my woman body.  I am these trees, too.  Bleeding out color, always in transition from one season to the next.  Life and death and budding and blooming and bleeding and falling and barren and waiting.  

Welcome autumn.

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