August 22, 2026

late summer tutelage

By Kat Myrman

Let’s start with the good stuff…glimmers of course! ✨🌿✨

great-granddaughter, Lilah Fields born 8/18/26
blooms from a hydrangea rescued from the full sun
Frankie teaching me to rest
first light through the garden window
underneath the canopy of a twin hickory tree
late summer tutelage

Sometimes
it takes a tempest,
a tree-downing, blackout-inducing,
earth saturating deluge, 
with a distinct possibility of flooding, 
especially in low-lying areas,
to cool the unrelenting 
red hot wave of summer…
cool mornings like this
remind us the fall is coming
with its ruddy blush, smoky 
cinnamon-laced lessons of letting go 
the wilted remnants 
of the past season under 
skies so cloudless, crystalline blue 
peering through a lattice
of transparency so stark, it challenges 
us to believe that even we, 
after a brief slumber, 
may emerge anew with a clean slate, 
even we can shed what no longer serves us 
and begin again.

~kat

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you…the Fall is coming. ✨🌿💚🌿✨

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