A Short Update on a Post from a Couple of Weeks Ago

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the times in August here in Mississippi when we get a brief but wonderful taste of the early days of Autumn.  While we are in the midst of the summer heat and when we think we can stand the oppressive heat no longer, a day or two of cooler weather tempts of the days of fall yet to come.  We are experiencing exactly that weather as I write these lines. We are in enjoying "Autumn's Tease."This morning the temperature was in the lower 60s, which is unusual for this time of year in Mississippi.  The air is dry and the deep blue sky is higher and wider than those in Montana. 

William Faulkner from the Cofield
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Again the quote from William Faulkner, “...in August in Mississippi there are a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality of light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times.  It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and —-from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just a day or two,  then it’s gone...it reminded me of that time, of luminosity older than our Christian civilization.”

Until next time...enjoy your days.