By Carole Hallundbaek, PRN Host / Godspeed Institute, Sundays 2:00pm

The valley where I live is in November’s glory now, all orange and gold
with the dotted exception of evergreens. A remarkable sight every year, I
especially enjoy the burnished mountainside gleaming like a polished
copper kettle in the sun.

It is a crisp, crystalline afternoon, the best kind in Maine.  A little
cold is necessary to make this sharp clarity happen. I watch the clouds
that cause great shadows to move across the earth, across the dried marsh
reeds that wave in the brisk breeze like wheat.  The earth is fair, at
times blond, at this time of year. I breathe, taking in the clean air…
taking in the whole world.