The summer passed. Choked by excessive heat and wildfire smoke. Like the blur of highway signs in the predawn light, it sped by. Were all summers like this one? What were the stories of previous Augusts?
From three years ago:
From five years ago:
Eight years ago:
Dare I go back any further? Ten years ago. Nothing appears to be written in August. What about fifteen years ago?
Eighteen years ago:
Looking back over these August thoughts, essays, meditations. . . this modern peasant needs to devote more time to things made by human hands. So much of my professional life is filled with screen time, that it is time to return to handmade art, design, and poetry.