We read Longfellow’s “Autumn” and trace how beauty, duty, and mortality weave into a calm acceptance of change. The poem’s images of golden harvest and quiet skies become a guide for slowing down and listening to what the season wants to teach.

Next Saturday, we’ll step into something a little different with Incantation by George Parsons Lothrop, a poem with a darker, more mysterious tone as we gently ease into spooky season