For one thing, the searing desert heat where I live is almost at an end. For another, the skies are particularly generous with their offerings.
But my favorite reason for enjoying August is that I get to write a word I can use only once a year:
"Thither."
It comes up every year around this time because it's when we're approaching the annual Perseid meteor shower. It was the ancient Chinese who first documented this shower ...
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