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10.16.2008 9:53 pm

Fall and thoughts about the passage of time

Special to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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The first time I saw the brilliant color change of fall was at Penn State University. The flaming red colors were very impressive. But I prefer the fall colors we have the mixing of reds, yellows, greens and browns producing a wide variety of exquisite hues bright and dark. A feast for the eyes.

Fall though always is a reminder of the passage of time and somehow feels a more appropriate time to take stock and think of how to improve ourselves. And it brings to mind a small chapter from the Qur’an and its reminder to in our struggle to self correct and improve firstly and mainly ourselves and also perhaps a little the

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environment around us.

IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE:
(1) CONSIDER the flight of time!
(2) Verily, man is bound to lose himself
(3) unless he be of those who attain to faith, and do good works,
and enjoin upon one another the keeping to truth,
and enjoin upon one another patience in adversity.

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