Summer ends and the flames of autumn briefly flare and then fade. Is ther nothing to look forward to but the encroaching bleakness and cold of winter, as the days get shorter and the nights grow longer. Look futher, look beyond. Can you not see the brightness, the promise of better things to come. Summer will return. It won't be the same summer, but it will be a summer.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."