A Pale September is upon us....

Hello

Well, I decided to take my Oprah ramblings and life updates and turn them into a blog. No more mass email updates! Besides being an annoying, impersonal way to update friends and family, they made me feel self-absorbed. Now, if you want to know about my life, you can read my blog and if not, you don't have to read it!! I will no longer force you to learn about my wonderful life through mass emails!

The explanation for my blog title.

As many of you know my favorite singer is Fiona Apple. So it would only be fitting to have one of her songs as my title. Pale September is from her first album, Tidal. I feel like the song effectively conveys my experience with love. I also feel as though, it works well because being a teacher my year pretty much starts in September. Although that year is anything but pale, I still think the name works. I've enclosed the lyrics:

Pale september, I wore the time like a dress that year

The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin

But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared

My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within

But then he rose, brilliant as the moon in fullAnd sank in the burrows of my keep

And all my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet

And my winter giving way to warm, as Im singing him to sleep

He goes along just as a water lily

Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats

Unweighted down by passion or intensity

Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts

And he finds a home in me

For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

And all my armour failing down, in a pile at my feet

And my winter giving way to warm, as Im singing him to sleep

All my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet

And my winter giving way to warm, as Im singing him to sleep