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IT IS NOVEMBER, and many have waxed poetic about this month in particular, and autumn in general. Sarah Addison Allen takes the culinary approach about November with “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon,” while Albert Camus, no stranger to deep thoughts, once said “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” Lauren DeStefano sees the leaf pile as half full with her quote: “Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale,” as does Jim Bishop with “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” From his room with a view perhaps is where author E.M. Forster observed “The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost,” while the musically optimistic Chad Sugg says “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” And Anne Bosworth Greene, the late great nature writer, hit the natural nail on the head describing November as having “a sort of delightful menace in the air.” And of course, the ever-popular
November 2020 | The South Coast Insider
“November is dark, dreary, wet, and miserable, it can’t make up its freaking mind to rain or snow so it does both at once, usually during the morning or night commute from the traffic hell hole that is wherever you’re trying to get to or leave from, it gets dark wicked early, everyone has seasonal affective disorder and it’s only the first damn month in what feels like eight long damn months of damn winter,” a quote attributable to every New Englander who has ever lived. But November, like all months, is packed with days of observance – those times set aside to honor a cause, a disease, a product, a place or to just be completely silly. Did you know the first Friday of November is “Love Your Lawyer Day?” Stop laughing, it’s a thing, created by a Florida lawyer and marketer, Nader Anise, who is also the founder of the American Lawyers Public Image Association, which face it, is the most impossible job in the world. Got something to say? We’re all ears on November 23, aka National Listening Day, when Americans are encouraged to set aside time to record the stories of families and friends, proposed as an alternative to Black Friday. Speaking of which, if you’d prefer to march ‘til you drop rather than shop, check out “Buy Nothing Day” the day after Thanksgiving, held in protest against
Did you know the first Friday of November is “Love Your Lawyer Day?”
