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August 2026
August elicits mixed feelings from me.
It’s summer’s lazy, sprawling Sunday afternoon. Freedom tinged with a sudden, slowly tightening restraint. Athletes and musicians return from lifeguarding, camp counseling, for preseason practice at the high school. Beaches quiet. Nights cool even as the dog days grind on.
It’s the school year’s New Year’s Eve, July 4th receding in the rear view before its Labor Day disappearance. It’s popsicles and lightning. New clothes. Fresh backpacks. Premonition of October melancholy shielded only slightly by hope for a late September second summer.
What’s August to you?