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Dear September, Happy Daughter’s Day! Aren’t I lucky! I brought a cream velvet-looking chair from our city house when we moved. It fit me just right and swiveled to get in and out of…with the Scandinavian-patterned ottoman from Ross tucked in close. My plan was to replace my old chair that had journeyed from California to Boise to Montana with us years ago. Our chairs sit on the windowless fireplace wall of the cabin looking out at the lake and mountains. Rainy Thursday… I love stories. Seems I learn best that way. Perhaps it's because great storytellers capture images and moments in time that teach us the whole lesson at once. Frederick Buechner is one of those voices. In the middle of a sermon called “Dereliction,” he pauses to tell this story: September Soup Supper on the porch last night. We hung fall leaves in the windows and lit the candles in the twig-and-iron chandelier. After a breezy day the smoke was finally gone, mountains and foothills alight across the lake. There was barely room on the porch for all of us to circle-up for the blessing. Smoke from the wildfires still hides our mountains, suspends us. It’s been days. We’re spoiled. The lake is quiet except for the seaplane student practicing a foggy takeoff. I saw a lone sailboat this morning, just barely…a tiny gray silhouette in the white. Morning coffee has moved inside. “I have journeyed 67 on the porch this late afternoon as I head out to write. The wind from the north is ruffling and darkening the water, brushing the smoke from in front of the mountains, setting the wind chimes singing. I go back in for my socks and sweatshirt. I’m not ready to stay inside. I put my cup on my pages as I write to keep them from turning.

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