Autumn

These last few days have been the first few to feel like fall. It still looks like summer, but it feels like fall. It's like coming from the Shadowlands into the World Where One Is Really Alive, because everything is so much brighter and the air is more nourishing and the sun is cool and hot at the same time.

I heard the name "Abdi-Salaam" yesterday at a photography exhibit of the Somalian diaspora to the United States. (free on Sundays at the Columbus Metropolitian Museum of Art) "Abd" is the Arabic word for slave or servent, and salaam, as anyone f you should know, means peace. I'd like a name with that sort of commission, slave of peace.

Or one my dad found somewhere in the bowels of 1 Kings: Abel-mecholah, Meadow of Dancing.