There is a particular quality to August light that I have come to recognize over many years of watching the sky change with the seasons. It burns steadier than July's wild abundance, less scattered, more concentrated, as though the sun itself has stopped reaching outward and begun gathering its power inward instead. I have learned to trust this shift as a teacher. August does not ask us to expand endlessly outward the way early summer does. It asks us to root fully into ourse
