thaw

an opening and an offering

the thaw started on august nineteenth, twenty twenty four. it seems strange for a thaw to begin in late summer, but a thaw is a transition, and so is late summer. this comes after a long winter season, a freeze that began almost exactly three years ago, give or take a few weeks. but weather patterns seemed to have been building up to the freeze for some time before that.

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image: July 8, 2024. poppy petals pressed in the back of A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. we brought leftover poppies from our wedding with us on a road trip to Cape Cod, where I also brought along this book to read. as the poppies dropped petals each day, I collected them and carried them with me back home.