Brain Food #647
New beginnings
Thoughts of the day
It has been a while, and I hope seeing Brain Food in your inboxes brought a tinge of happiness to your Friday.
As we have officially entered the first days of autumn, it felt apt to restart Brain Food with a quote from The Great Gatsby:
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
Ironically, this time marks the end of the summer, the happiest of seasons, but there is always a bittersweet comfort in knowing it will return next year. The seasons come and go, in a constant process of renewal. New beginnings often arrive at this time of the year: the start of the new school year, graduate programmes, new cities, new routines.
And as the trees prepare to shed their leaves, making way for fresh ones to slowly grow, perhaps this can be seen as a symbolic act, gifted to us by nature: letting something go, to make space for something new.
Four Trees by Egon Schiele, painted in 1917, depicts four trees in the midst of autumn, with red-orange leaves, though one of them barely has any left. Change is inevitable for all of us, but it can happen at a different pace.
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