SMALL WORLD
Since I was a kid, fall has given me a thrill of excitement but also a little shiver (winter is coming, after all). It’s an exciting time with everyone back in action and plugged in after summer’s relaxed, off-the-grid vacation months. I’m not alone. There’s something about the shorter days and cooler nights that has inspired the human imagination through the centuries in ways both celebratory and sinister. Many Northern Hemisphere cultures have fall celebrations at the time of the harvest moon to mark the line between the end of the growing season and the start of the hard winter months. It’s interesting the many similarities they share. China and Vietnam celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with moon cakes and parades of lanterns often inscribed with riddles. During English and European fall…
