{"id":1074,"date":"2019-10-19T00:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T00:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2020-09-18T00:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T00:14:17","slug":"autumn-romance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7623-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-827\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7623-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7623-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7623-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7623.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Bella Grace Magazine, Issue 25<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>May, June, and July weddings are a good idea. \u201cShall I compare thee to a summer\u2019s day? \/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate,\u201d trilled William Shakespeare. For Halcyon Day lovers, skies are blue, the grass is green, the sun smiles.&nbsp;By no accident did the Beach Boys hit the jack pot with happy summer land surfing and all those cruising songs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Autumn nuptials may prove chancier, stormier\u2014more cello, less violin. The weather can swing either way. Indeed, a bride may want to consult literary symbolism prior to setting her wedding date. Ah, but upon closer look, we find Fall to be the season for spiced and ready Romance, for snuggling, lingering kisses, for new and glorious awakenings. Wood smoke rises and dances in the crisp air, a genie free of its bottle. The black creek sparkles now, a shimmering path winding through the shadowed mist and meadow with surprising bright bursts here and there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would never choose June over our wedding day on October 19th, that spectacular Mid-west morning after it had rained all night, when we married out in the woods, when Autumn Light\u2014that magical presence\u2014made her visitation, sifting through fine vapor and trees clothed in velvet moss, striking bright yellows and coppers like hammer upon lyre. Why didn\u2019t the Maples, Sweetgums, and Oaks all burst into autumn flame at once? Instead, like a well-orchestrated symphony, each took its perfectly timed entrance and exit\u2014a sacred moment in the otherwise ordinary\u2014Nature\u2019s Romance at its finest. My fianc\u00e9 and I (then nineteen) eloped that day before hopping a train to Toronto. Only after crossing the border, safe in another country, did we have the courage to call and announce to our parents that we were wed. Glorious awakening, indeed. Although I\u2019m not fond of pumpkin spice, I\u2019m sticking with F. Scott Fitzgerald who claims, \u201cLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May, June, and July weddings are a good idea. \u201cShall I compare thee to a summer\u2019s day? \/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate,\u201d trilled William Shakespeare. For Halcyon Day lovers, skies are blue, the grass is green, the sun smiles.&nbsp;By no accident did the Beach Boys hit the jack pot with happy summer land surfing and all those cruising songs.&nbsp; Autumn nuptials may prove chancier, stormier\u2014more cello, less violin. The weather can swing either way. Indeed, a bride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}