Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect LifeNow I find myself in late August, with the nights cool and the crickets thick in the fields. Already the first blighted leaves glow scarlet on the red maples. Its a season of fullness and sweet longings made sweeter now by the fact that I cant be sure Ill see this time of the year again. from Learning to Fall Philip Simmons was just thirty five years old in 1993 when he learned that he had ALS, or Lou Gehrigs disease, and was told he had less than