Change of Life

I'm pretty sure I've entered perimenopause.  In the last couple of months I've had night sweats, hot flashes, and have had a lot of trouble sleeping.  My period is two weeks late and I'm not pregnant.  There are other symptoms too.  A change of life.

It's appalling how the web is so utterly commercial now.  Looking for information on perimenopause I have to wade through page after page of ad-larded material, often subjecting me to mini-movies and myriad, sometimes animated ads for everything from schizophrenia to incontinence to unsightly skin disorders.  It's really unpleasant.

Here is the best website I've found on menopause:

The North American Menopause Society - Non-profit with lots of non-commericial, authoritative information and resources on menopause.

Equinox

We strayed across the fields at fall
broad September fields all seven moons
had passed and now on horseback
eight and nine were done.

Our motion moved the earth
and thrashing winds around were we
at one with the endless plain and
the tall, swaying wheat.

How many horses?  How many hours?
Beneath our bodies, beating the ground
Hands in manes and long hair waving
in rhythm with the wheat.