Fall is my favorite season - being outside, smelling the air, gazing at leaves, eating the foods, all while wearing my comfy green hoodie and shorts or jeans (depending on the day). But before I know it, the winter will be here - so, it's time to get intentional. In addition to eating too many Honeycrisps (just enough?) and pumpkin-foods, here are the ten things I want to commit to doing this fall:

1. Sit in Winnemac Park for at least two hours every Monday it isn't raining. Read a book, write, pray, stare.

2. Visit the Osaka Japanese Gardens.

3. Go sculpture hunting in Lincoln Park.

4. Hang out in Wrigleyville during playoff games, especially games where we can clinch.

5. Go to Pilsen and marvel at the murals.

6. Bike Lake Shore Drive.

7. Go see Jack Kerouac's On the Road manuscript.

8. Ride the Sunday Parkways.

9. Only go out of my way to watch TV shows I'm already invested in (The Office, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother & Chuck, and later Lost & Friday Night Lights) with a couple others DVR'd for late night insomnia or rainy Mondays. Watch no new shows.

10. I'm leaving this one up to you. What should I make sure to add to my list? Daydream with me in the comments.

photo - Pavel Trebukov

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