Summer be gone!

Henry Rollins—musician, writer, and all-around creative—wrote this back in his 2012 column, "Summer Be Gone!" when he was ready to wave good-bye to August and hello to a cooler September:

"Late summer is fired, blasted winds, beginnings, middles and ends — all ending. For some it's a parting wave to youth, love, conquest and deathless time. In the face of this destruction there is revelation, epiphany, agony and exhaustion. Empty pursuits on fruitless plains in search of lightning, or perhaps even nothing.

We know it, therefore we must slay it. We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost."

Here where I live we've had the opposite: a chilly August followed by a roasting September. Summer's wreckage is not yet upon us, annoyingly. It taunted us last month and then fled. I still put out my fall decor last week, though. I figured, let's see if I can fake it til the weather makes it.

If the heat is persisting where you are too, and you're ready for cozy season and the slowing down that comes with it, hang in there. It's coming.

Image from Pixabay (no creator listed).

Henry Rollins, "The Column! Summer Be Gone!" in LA Weekly, September 6, 2012.