Julie Hage:
An American wife, mother, author, and blog administrator. She developed an interest in writing in elementary school and filled countless notebooks with romantic thoughts and story ideas. She also writes under the name J.K. Hage.
Her life philosophy is “Make it Easy,” and her passion is helping overwhelmed women build their best lives through planning, simplifying, and taking action. She runs a blog called “Filling the Jars” with the same goal.
Take it all in, enjoy every moment, hold on to the experience that is October. Abundance. Beauty. Life.
The sentence celebrates ‘October as a rich sensory and emotional experience’:
– “Take it all in”:
— notice the season fully and mindfully.
– “Enjoy every moment”:
— appreciate its brief, fleeting nature.
– “Hold on to the experience”:
— preserve October in memory before it passes.
– “Abundance. Beauty. Life.”:
— evokes harvest, autumn color, and the vitality still present even as the year moves toward winter.
The short final words give the quotation a meditative rhythm and summarize October as a season of ‘fullness, beauty, and aliveness’.
✍️ Author and origin:
The quotation is ‘widely attributed online to Julie Hage’, usually in this form:
> “Take it all in, enjoy every moment, hold on to the experience that is October. Abundance. Beauty. Life.”
However, there appears to be ‘no readily verifiable primary source’—such as a published book, dated article, or identifiable original essay—confirming where and when Julie Hage wrote it.
I just love this! Although long and relaxing summer evenings are beautiful, settling in during autumn is calming and cozy. Fires, blankets, maybe a little cuddling and Netflix… 🙂
The sentence contrasts the pleasures of two seasons:
– Summer:
Offers long, beautiful, relaxing evenings.
– Autumn brings a different kind of pleasure:
Staying indoors, feeling calm and comfortable, and enjoying fires, blankets, cuddling, and Netflix.
Overall:
It celebrates autumn as a season of ‘warmth, intimacy, relaxation, and coziness’, resembling the Scandinavian concept of ‘hygge’.
Origin 🔎:
The quotation appears on the ‘Filling the Jars’ page titled ‘October Quotes’:
However, this is a ‘quotation-compilation website’, ‘not necessarily the quotation’s original source’. The page does not provide an earlier publication, book, interview, or social-media post from which the sentence was taken. ‘Therefore, its precise original context and date remain unverified.’
Author ✍️:
The ‘Filling the Jars’ page attributes the quotation to Julie Hage.
Julie Hage may be the original writer or speaker, ‘but the compilation page alone does not conclusively establish her authorship’.
