being that today is the first day of my favorite season (fall is currently tied with spring), i want it to be a day of celebration. these are a few things inspiring me. the most important of them is an excerpt from shauna niequist’s book bittersweet.  it’s a bit long, but worth the read.

“Fall is harvest, when we’re getting all the good stuff that someone took the time to plant many months ago. Someone planted it, and now we benefit from it. And that’s how it is when we make art. We struggle and push and plant seeds deep underground, and it doesn’t look like much for a while. But then someone comes along and listens to your song or sees your painting or reads your poem, and they feel alive again, like the world is fresh and bursting, just like harvest. Plant something today that will feed someone many months or many years from now. Plant something today, because you’ve feasted on someone else’s carefully planted seeds, seeds that bloomed into nourishment and kept you alive and wide-eyed.