September is filled with overwhelming sadness, and it has been for the past few years.

It was the month he passed away, making it always an anniversary. It was the month everything changed, making us always remember. It was the month that turned us inside-out and upside-down, and here it goes doing it again. I don't know why I am surprised. Maybe we are just programmed to feel this way when September comes around the bend, because it is all that we have ever known.

All I want to do is be this warm light that pours over everyone I love, but that is a hard thing to be when even I seem to be enveloped in very dark clouds.

While we sit amidst the lonely September ahead, here's to an October filled with tremendous joy, and to all the rain that will fall, be gone, and bring out the sunshine again to warm my skin.