Sailing out and in

I think of sailing and I think of salient... salient as in projecting or pointing up and outward, out to the open waters, open to the expanse of life. I feel inward, gathering in to myself... a centering and grounding. Appropriate, as I am told that summer is the time of expansion, whereas autumn is a transition time of gathering, preparation for the winter. Summer is lingering, but fall is here. I see it in the colors of the leaves, I feel it with the cool nights, I hear it on the wind. And, I know it is so in my self.