July 2023

“it is the end of july and the idle breeze of gentle childhood befogs my mind once more,
as the foreign dull heat holds my body so close i feel it’s scarce and quiet breathing brush against my stomach.” — adina s.

Central Coast California 2023

“Lean in close to my little record player on the floor. So this is what the volume knob’s for… I listen to dance music.” – JD/The Mountain Goats

November 2022

“I wore the scent of weather inside / my body like a sacred love.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta

October 2022

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” — Rainbow Rowell

September 2022

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” — Peggy Toney Horton

August 2022 • Part III

“The grass in the back field was almost waist high, and now there was goldenrod, that late-summer gossip which comes to tattle on autumn every year. But there was no autumn in the air today; the sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
― Stephen King

The Smithsonian • 2022

Sometimes when I’m swimming, I think that maybe someday I’ll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I’ll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display. — David Duchovny

February 2022

“Why, what’s the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
― William Shakespeare

December 2021

“I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape–the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ”
–Andrew Wyeth

November 2021

“I know that I have died before—once in November.” – Anne Sexton