Things I'm grateful for this month:
- Golden late autumn days
- Going to Creams Cafe in Brighton
- Autumn beauty
- Hot chocolate
- Doing some belly dancing again
- Going to Action for Happiness meetups again
- Feeling "seen" by others
- Finding inspiration in the world
Thoughts
In addition to my monthly gratitude list, I decided to share some random thoughts. I haven't written many posts this year apart from my Gratitude Lists. I do have a couple of ideas in mind but for now I'm just going to do a sort of "mini" blog post.
This time of year feels a bit hard to me in some ways because the days are getting shorter and darker as we move towards winter. (Although I find January the hardest really). I've mentioned before that I struggle a bit during autumn. I also have a seasonal living blog called The Seasonal Life and I've gone a bit more into that subject over there, e.g. about how I find the transition from summer to autumn more difficult than that of the one from winter to spring. It feels like a "pulling in" as we move towards the darkest part of the year, the Winter Solstice (also known as Yule) in December, which is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Autumn is a beautiful time of year but it's also quite melancholy for me because nature is dying off and the weather becoming bleaker. Several years ago, I went through a hard time during October (I wrote the post When You're Struggling then) but when November came, I felt a bit "lighter" again. These past couple of years have been extra hard for everyone with the pandemic and other issues/events such as racial unrest and the war in Ukraine. Things still feel very uncertain.
I tend to feel a bit weary during the last part of year because while
sometimes the year seems to have gone quite quickly, some months feel
long! The time from September to December always seem to go quickly.
I haven't felt as inspired to blog on here as much over the past two years, although I have written more regularly on The Seasonal Life and my entertainment blog Star Sparkle Blog. I think posts here require more "energy" because I'm covering deeper subjects. I do still enjoy it though and I'm glad that I have this space to reflect on self-help/personal development and spiritual subjects. Next year it will be 10 years since I started Falling Petals! I will do a birthday post.
A couple of months ago I picked up my Feeling Your Emotions series again after a break of 2 and a half years, writing a recap post. I plan to write more in that series next year. I've also been looking into the Law of Assumption (after previously having only known the Law of Attraction).
So that's it for now! Next month I will do my annual end of year post, which will be more in-depth. Thank you for reading and hope everyone is doing ok. I know that in America you just had Thanksgiving, so I hope that those who celebrated had a good time. :)
Photo: Buckingham Park, Shoreham-by-sea. Moonsparkle 2022.
