Autumns of Life

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life colette_earthlyparadise.jpg?fit=320%2C498 Autumn of life The weather has seeded our earliest myths, inspired some of our greatest art, and even affects the way we think. In our divisive culture, where sharped-edged differences continue to fragment our unity, it is often the sole common ground for people bound by time and place — as we move through the seasons, we weather the whims of the weather together.