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In case you haven't yet read the last entry, Reflections on a Cold Day, I'll give you a brief summary to save you the burden. Since about August 22nd the birds from my yard and our vicinity by extension have simply disappeared. Up and went. Now we hear only the whispering of the leaves in a breeze...

Today in the Eastern US, temperatures dropped a little, a little more than they had before, giving us our first crisp scent of a coming autumn. For reasons beyond my conscious intuition, cold, dark gray, overcast weather like this always gets me thinking about the past, my future, and the...