And Suddenly, It’s Not Summer

Chris Jones
6 min readAug 14, 2023

It’s still summer today, by the calendar, and by the weather, and yet…it’s not.

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My wife and youngest son went back to school this morning, and I find myself lost. Still working in the garden, still pruning my tomatoes and watering the plants and not having anything immovable on the calendar, but there’s something in the air that doesn’t feel like summer any more.

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Chris Jones

Working writer, teacher of historical things, professor of logic, rhetoric, and poetics at Mount Liberty College (.org). Wild-eyed romantic. I believe.