Newsletter October 2026
It’s Halloween Eve as I write this, and those pumpkins aren’t going to carve themselves, so I better get busy with this autumnal missive. Welcome to my October Newsletter!
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It’s Halloween Eve as I write this, and those pumpkins aren’t going to carve themselves, so I better get busy with this autumnal missive. Welcome to my October Newsletter!
Atoning in its splendor for the flight
Of summer blooms and joys
This is September.
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Welcome to my August Newsletter: A self-contained one-sitting read, with no endless scroll!
‘“Tonight’s a monument which Earth has made
From brooding on July.”’ – July Moon by Louise Townsend Nicholl
Is that another month gone already? It must be time for my July newsletter!
At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon. (Poe, The Sleeper)
Welcome to my June newsletter!
“Shed ne’er a clout till the May is out!” my mammy would urgently say to me as a boy if I so much as looked at the zipper of my coat before June. Well it’s June now, you may commence shedding your clouts. Welcome to my May Newsletter!