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The tulip poplars on my street started dropping their tired yellow leaves weeks early this year, out of pure August exhaustion, and the clay under them has gone the color of dried brick.

Before you argue with one single soul today, go put your bare palm flat on something the empire didn't build. A porch rail. A tree. The hood of your own beat-to-hell car. Hold it there until your shoulders drop. You cannot out-think a nervous system that believes it's being hunted, and that's the one fight all week you're guaranteed to win.

The earth has never once needed a federal form to know how many of us there are.

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The heat has not broken. Ninety-four in Atlanta today, ninety-five tomorrow, the air outside my door still standing up like a wall.

But the light has changed. It comes in lower after three and goes gold across the clay in a way it did not do in July, and if you've lived here long enough your body reads that slant before your calendar does.

The hummingbirds are staging right now, fattening at the feeders before the crossing. Not one of them is waiting for the weather to feel like autumn. They read the light. They go.

A' chiad ghaoth fhuar — the first cold wind — hasn't come. The light knows anyway.

What has your body noticed this week that your calendar hasn't?

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The tulip poplars on my street started dropping their tired yellow leaves weeks early this year, out of pure August exhaustion, and the clay under them has gone the color of dried brick.

Before you argue with one single soul today, go put your bare palm flat on something the empire didn't build. A porch rail. A tree. The hood of your own beat-to-hell car. Hold it there until your shoulders drop. You cannot out-think a nervous system that believes it's being hunted, and that's the one fight all week you're guaranteed to win.

The earth has never once needed a federal form to know how many of us there are.

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Kudzu is blooming along every roadside and the whole thing smells absurdly like grape soda — you catch it the first time and look around for a spilled cup.

The cicada shells are still gripping the pine bark where the bodies climbed out of them. The figs are going soft faster than anybody can get to them. And the tulip poplars have started dropping yellow leaves in the middle of August, because the ground went dry and the tree made a decision about it.

Fanaidh an talamh — the earth waits. It has done this before.

What's quitting early where you are?

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The cicadas changed their song last night. That high electric whine drops into a long exhale and you feel it in your back teeth before you name it.

Tomatoes cracking their own skins from drinking too fast. First goldenrod up along the ditch line. Three minutes of light gone every day now, and nobody consulted about it.

An talamh fo do chasan — the earth beneath your feet. It hasn't gone anywhere.

What's turned over where you are this week?

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The cicadas changed their song last night. That high electric whine drops into a long exhale and you feel it in your back teeth before you name it.

Tomatoes cracking their own skins from drinking too fast. First goldenrod up along the ditch line. Three minutes of light gone every day now, and nobody consulted about it.

An talamh fo do chasan — the earth beneath your feet. It hasn't gone anywhere.

What's turned over where you are this week?

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