Can We Skip “Ins & Outs“ Trend?
Brrrr... It’s finally cold in NorCal this week.
I love the changing seasons. Switching from iced matcha lattes and fruits to warm, cozy tea and soup. The farmers' market is still abundant with the last of summer harvests, like zucchini and baskets of tomatoes, but peaches and soft berries are long gone. Small piles of pomegranates and apples are replacing what’s disappearing.
I see a trend on social media labeled “Fall Ins and Outs.” I get excited for the new season, so I swipe left.
Ins: Going to bed earlier, warm meals, journaling, candles, more letting go... (makes my heart smile.)
Outs: Overbooking your week, skipping meals, checking your phone first thing... (wait....)
I pause. I check another post like this, and it’s the same. Inviting positivity in, pushing unhealthy habits and negativity out.
Can we talk about this? Please? Because that’s NOT the point.
The changing of seasons isn’t about reinventing yourself. It’s a re-invitation of your rhythm. You are giving your summer habits a farewell, knowing they’ll return to you next year, creating space in your life (and your kitchen) for a new season to start trickling in.
Maybe it’ll look like cherishing that final summer peach smoothie you’d saved in the freezer on a warm autumn afternoon, already looking forward to next year’s U-pick peach farm opening week. But your body is surely just as excited about your favorite apple orchard starting to carry Fuji apples and finding enormous pomegranates bursting open at the market. (Someone once told me that burst-open pomegranates are better than closed ones.)
Seasons are beautiful because they don’t last forever. And they let go so gracefully, perhaps because they are surely returning.
Your overbooked schedule and screen time have nothing to do with the changing seasons. Those are things we can practice changing separately, with a different purpose. So for now, instead of making it about what’s good and what’s bad, can we make this time of year about good becoming a different kind of good?
Thank you, Summer. See you next year.
Welcome, Fall. Good to see you again.
Love and gratitude,
Kanade
