cornucopian

These days, clusters of plummy Concords, oval autumn royals and dusky kyohos are decorating dinner tables, doubling as cornucopian decorations and low-effort snacks.

The nature carpets form a small field, each tile in this artificial but cornucopian paradise charming in its own microcosmic way, some alive with fluorescent greens, some topped with sea gulls planing over patches of ocean.

But, more than that, by giving us glimpses of this cornucopian wealth of movie narrative, “Journeys” reminds us what we are missing, why theatrical films continue to matter no matter how dire things become in the wider world.

September is a cornucopian time, when late-summer and early-fall harvests mingle, the first butternut squash next to the last Sugar Baby watermelons.

Bagel offerings in the city have expanded over the past few years, but many are tucked away in pastry cases, as they are at Zoe Nathan and Josh Loeb’s Milo & Olive and Roxana Jullapat’s Friends & Family; or compete on cornucopian menus at restaurants such as Freedman’s and Travis Lett’s Gjusta.