What September feels like

The beauty of a proper fade

Dear September,

I hear you and you’re melancholy swooping in. This in-between time. This 5th season that ushers us on to the next.

It feels like relief from summer’s gripping heat. I hear the crackle and crunch of leaves on the sidewalk, and I know you’re here.

A sunny kind of life is leaving as we welcome the beauty of a proper fade. I see its arrival in your mustard yellows, sunset rouges, and sage.

With the slow trickle from light to dark comes the last of Horton’s tomatoes and the clearing out of old clothes and animal hair from shedding summer coats.

The sun sure does feel kind again. Feels like I’m catching up on sleep with my window box fan. I can finally turn off the A/C. I can finally eat a meal on the back deck or front porch. I can finally think without the combustible pressure, and sweat clouding my eyes. I can finally let my album and songs upload into the anticlimactic ether of a digital streaming service! (lol) She was made for cooler weather. The first single will be out on 9.27 :)

Talk again soon!

Nellen