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COFFEE BREAK WITH J by JEANETTE MARCO

Making the most of our Harvest

by Marco

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

or those of us living in the Western our thoughts and emotions not just in the Spring and
Hemisphere the time of the harvest is upon Summer but perhaps most importantly during the
us-the days grow shorter, temperatures begin impending Winter.
Fto drop, the sun rises each morning at an ever Winter is the season of retrospection, introspection,
decreasing angle casting long shadows as the Earth and, reevaluation processes which generate true
prepares to tuck itself in for a restful sleep from which knowledge based on experience, the food of thought
it will emerge renewed, refreshed, reinvigorated, AND, upon which the seed feeds to imbue itself with the
ready to bloom in the Spring. required degree of cognitive nutrition to insure it will
If only we would follow suit how much more might germinate in the Spring.
we get out of life? If after a long year of working, Winter then, far from being a time of comatose
playing, loving, hating, fighting, reuniting, terminating hibernation, is an opportunity for us and the earth to
then rekindling friendships and relationships both regather our life force-collect, collate, align, codify,and,
personal and business, we used this time of year to perfect our thoughts or the fruit of our harvest
reflect, refract, relax, reevaluate, and, reap the fruits of quantified as our growth-manifested and realized in
the seeds we sowed in the Spring nurtured to fruition the multitudinous iterations of positive ways that we’ve
in the Summer might we come the following Spring not changed for the better.It benefits others -the true fruit
be all the better for it? of our labors-for which above each of us should be so
Yes, say those of us cognizant, prescient, and, very thankful for during this time of the harvest since
conscious enough to appreciate that the quality of our we always reap what we sow and change is all we can
harvest is a direct reflection of the consequences of ever truly count on.n

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