One of my favorite passages about the end of summer comes from American Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. It comes from his book Tree of Codes: “August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.” (Source) I hope, wherever you’re experiencing the end of summer, you can still pause to enjoy those few remaining summer afternoons ‘sprouting between the chapters’ of your year. Today, I think … [Read more...] about The End of Summer Series Continues: Seashell Cremation Jewelry
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The End of Summer Series: Beach Urns
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here,” Helen Hunt Jackson writes in her poem, September. “With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.” Even though autumn brings cheer, I still find myself feeling a bit sad for the change of seasons. Summer seems to take too long to arrive and disappears all too quickly. To celebrate this change and revisit what is–for many people (including me)–one of the joyful experiences of summer: afternoons spent at the seashore; I’m going to … [Read more...] about The End of Summer Series: Beach Urns