Autumn as an Icon of Agnōsia
“Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim, and who sing the thrice-holy hymn to the life-creating Trinity, now lay aside all earthly cares.” (The Cherubic Hymn, from the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom)1 But laying aside all earthly cares has never come easily to me. Dread I haven’t always loved autumn the way I do…