Well, here we are in September — summer is in the rear view mirror, here comes fall. Of course everything’s different this year, but usually September is a pretty busy month — start of school, football season, lots of crops are being harvested and people are beginning to think about preparing for winter. Seems like a lot of significant events take place in September, too.
I’m not sure why I thought of this, but in September, 1972 I spent a good part of the month in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was there that I learned about the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. There was a movie made about that, called One Day in September — I noticed it was playing on one of the TV channels recently.
But anyhow, September’s name comes from the Latin word septem, meaning “seven.” As has been discussed here before, September was the seventh month of the early Roman calendar.
In Old England, September was called Harvest Month. And we’ll have a lot to celebrate this month — Labor Day, Patriot Day (in honor and remembrance of those who died in the September 11 attacks in 2001,) Grandparents Day and Constitution Day, not to mention Talk Like a Pirate Day. But we can’t forget the Autumn Equinox, Yom Kippur and Michaelmas.
So, hopefully we’ve got a good month ahead… September is the only month with the same number of letters as the number of the month — it’s the ninth month and has nine letters. That must mean something….
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