Welcome back to Mr. Right, a newsletter about navigating modern manhood for normal guys in a not-normal world. First off, wishing a belated Happy Veterans Day to all who have served or whose loved ones may have served this country. Thank you. This week, we discuss why November is the most underrated month of the year.
He Has A Point: The Greatness Of November
Once again, this week’s He Has A Point goes to the excellent and inimitable O.W. Root, for his contrarian take on the month of November.
“November may be the most underrated month of the year,” writes Root. “I finally understand this after all these years. The air is cold and refreshing. Crisp and clean.
But it’s not snowy; it’s not winter. The leaves are all but gone, the branches are bare. The clouds are different when they are there, and the bare sky looks a certain way when they are not.”
Root happens to live in the great north of Michigan, so if you’re like me and live a little further south, you might still be seeing leaves on the trees, and the weather may not be as frigid. But November is nevertheless a slept-on month, even if you live in Florida.
We always associate it with Thanksgiving, but the weeks leading up to the holiday are no less wonderful. Fall fully sets in. You start to smell wood-burning fires in the neighborhood. The excitement of the holiday season begins to hit harder. The anticipation builds. You start to see Christmas lights strung up here and there.
People love October because of pumpkins, pumpkin-flavored foods and drinks, and Halloween, of course. But November feels like deep fall, a time when, as Root observes, “the world feels abandoned.” It does feel abandoned, but in the best possible way: a peaceful, charming way. Life slows down (at least until the chaos of Thanksgiving and holiday travel).
As is usual, Root has a point.
“This week’s Mr. Right included commentary about FBI Director Kash Patel and his relationship with Alexis Wilkins. We included speculation about their relationship that was not appropriate, and while the intent of the post was not malicious, we missed the mark by engaging in that unnecessary conjecture. We sincerely apologize to both Mr. Patel and Ms. Wilkins for our poor judgement.”
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