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Our air conditioning at home is fixed (more accurately, a new unit was installed). And not one moment too soon: one heat waves breaks and another begins. The weather has been brutal for a solid month, maybe longer. I guess that's what summer is now. I just can't be outside as much as I would… Continue reading Hot Cloistered Summer
June had a beautiful start, but its last two weeks have been and will be lost to a long heatwave. Water ice has never been more appropriate! It comes with lots of sinus headaches, and fatigue. And longing to be outside in the sun, but staying inside to do yoga instead. Well, I still like… Continue reading Beating the Heat (Or, the heat beats me)
How is June so gorgeous?! It's also been so busy, I have whiplash. We started the month as guests at a really fun wedding. Seen from the road: Then spent the second weekend of the month at a work conference RE: civic engagement on college campuses. I'd never been to Oberlin, OH before. We drove… Continue reading June on the Road
I'm a little more than halfway through Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, and this week I got to a part where the narrator described the month of May 1812 in Yorkshire: The early part of that May, as we have seen, was fine, the middle was wet; but in the last week, at change of moon,… Continue reading Symmetry
BRONTË SEASON IS A THING! Daniel Lavery posted about the Brontës on May 6, just as I was getting cooking with Charlotte's Shirley. I started this audiobook on a long drive to a different org's Community Engagement Summit, while the wisteria bloomed feverishly. It peeked out of highway dividers, and hung down telephone cables. Spending… Continue reading Brontë Things
Laura Eppinger 