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Wherever you live on this planet, you’ve experienced seasons. Seasons happen because Earth spins on a tilted axis. When the North Pole tilts toward the sun, it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere; when the South Pole tilts toward the sun, it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In autumn, Earth is neither tilted toward nor away from the sun.1

Autumn, or fall, as we Americans call it, shortened from the 16th-century British expression “fall of the leaf,” is a transitional season bridging summer and winter, a time of harvest, of cooler, shorter days and thinning sunlight.

For many of us, it’s a time of endings—beach time, vacation time are over. Gone are the fireflies, butterflies, and pesky mosquitoes. The marigolds and petunias we planted in June are now shriveled brown blossoms. Our summer romances are over; the birds that sang to us through June, July, and August have departed. Canopies of green leaves that sheltered us from summer’s blaze are crispy around the edges. Like all living things, we feel the coming descent of the cold, dark months.

What does the arrival of this transitional season mean........

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