Well, it’s official. Leo season is over (long live), Virgo season is upon us. We’ve entered the weird few weeks where summer feels like it’s over but it’s not yet fall — a liminal space, if you will. It’s still goddamn hot (especially in New York it’s actually simply disgusting), and the carefree vibes of summer are gone. Summer Fridays end soon. Responsibilities loom ahead. Camp is over and we still have to do our summer reading. Fall is coming and fall means winter and winter means cold and that’s why this time of year always makes me a little sad.
But what the hell, it’s still summer! I can still go to the beach if I want to. Lots of people are on the beach right now!!! As a great poet once said, LET’S go to the beach, beach!!!!! I used to get mad at people who hated this time of year because I was like, excuse me it’s still August, August is still my birthday month, don’t take my joy away from me, SIR. But also, I get it, of course. I feel it too. And the feeling it and the not wanting to feel it make all everything I’m feeling weirder and worse. It’s a liminal time! I don’t know whether to hold onto joy or sadness, both feel like I’m deluding myself from experiencing the #present.
Maybe feeling both IS experiencing the present. This is getting emo lol. I’m really feeling fine, good even! On last week’s Las Culturistas, they talked about hating August and it brought all this up for me because I was like ugh does everyone just hate August?!? Tha’s a bi’ of a bummah (read in a cockney accent) for someone like me whose literal existence is tied to the month. But it all makes sense and it’s such a weird time. So I don’t really know what the conclusion is. I guess I’m just sharing an open-ended series of ponderings, as is my wont in this newsletter. Again, so amazing to be so vulnerable.
In other news this week, Allison and I drove in the middle of a hurricane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was terrifying :kissy-face: We left Great Barrington early to try and “beat the rain” only to arrive to NYC in the middle of sir henrí making landfall. Which meeeeant torrential downpour :) When I tell you I have never been more stressed out in a driving situation, reader, you better believe it. Massive puddles, low visibility, NYC drivers, it was a perfect storm (ok PUN!!!!) of stressors. But baruch hashem we survived and I do feel like I sort of can handle anything now. Not to brag but I actually crushed it and am now made of steel.
After we dropped off our rental car, we had no choice but to schlep all of our stuff in the pouring rain back to my apartment. Everything got soaked and I still have to do laundry but Allison and I ate thai food in towels at 10pm and that made me happy, so overall 10/10 experience, would do again (jk I would never like to do that again please god no).
Here are some highlights from this past week:
We did one of my fave hikes in GB (Bear Mountain State Park). They have this lovely lookout called the ledges and here’s a pic of the view!
Another pic from Bear Mountain’s lake :’)
And finally, the best view I saw all week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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