We are officially in the “Bers” now — September, October, November, December. The Bers are the long bell tolling for a year that is rapidly drawing to a close. Four more months and 2018 will be a memory.
The signs are all there — animals digging winter burrows, cooling air, political haranguing and the changing colors of the few leaves that aren’t already black from wildfires.
For some, 2018 will be the best year of their lives — the year they got married/divorced, the year their first child arrived/launched, or the year that altered the rest of their lives.