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August 2026
August elicits mixed feelings.
It’s summer’s lazy, sprawling Sunday afternoon. Freedom tinged with a gradually tightening restraint. Athletes and musicians return from lifeguarding and camp counseling for preseason practices at the high school. Beaches quiet. Nights cool even as the dog days grind on.
August is the school year’s New Year’s Eve. We sip gin and tonics on the porch as July 4th recedes and Labor Day looms. August is popsicles and lightning. New clothes. Fresh backpacks. Hope for some late-September summer days soften our premonitions of October melancholy.
What’s August to you?