End of Summer

I take care of one of my grandkids each summer, which is fun and also keeps me busy. I don’t have much time to write, but I always find time to read. So I offer you two pieces I loved reading. This is some summer nonfiction for you.

This short piece by Casey Jo Graham Welmers concerns rocks, grief, and reality. And it’s fantastic.

The next one is a long and thoughtful look at “the third thing” and its role in a successful relationship. You have to settle in for this one, and take your time. I would like make the generalization that male writers are more comfortable than female writers with asking us to do that, to listen to every last word they have to say on a subject. But of course that would be sexist of me, now, wouldn’t it? Still, this piece by poet Donald Hall is worth the time and concentration.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/60484/the-third-thing

School starts soon.

And so will our regularly scheduled programming.

Happy Summer.