The first day back after the summer. It always begin with a SIGH. The end of summer, the gradual beginning of fall. A transition from one kind of energy to another. The Jewish high holy days mark the end of one year and the beginning of a new one.

On Wednesday night Rosh Hashanah begins and one week later we Jews revisit the sins of the past year with the Yom Kippur fast.

The shofar will sound.

School schedules resume, energy levels quicken, the weather changes (or it doesn’t); it’s time to buy new shoes for school, notebooks, pencils. Even if you don’t have children or aren’t a student that beginning of school schedule is hard to forget.

Today, the day is kind of a start your engines kind of day. Fall ahead.