August and Everything After is the debut studio album by American rockband Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993, on Geffen Records.
It is one of the the best albums ever made, but to be truthful I am sick of my love for that album.
But that is not what I am writing about here. I am writing about the month of August. When we were kids we would head to the beach (Fenwick Island Delaware) on the third week of August. We looked forward to it every year. We already had our school clothes by then and wore them for the car ride to the beach. I don’t know why but we did. Even though the end of that week was a harbinger of fall and back to school, we loved loved the lazy hazy days of August.
Fast forward through my adulthood and switched oceans. One of the reasons I moved out west was to avoid the east coast heat and humidity. That illusion has been shattered. We now have a brand new season which I refer to wildfire season.
And it can be ugly as
There is no sky
or fresh air to breath
It’s a smoky apocalyptic
Surreal world where
One must ask.
Is this the end of
Summer as we know it
In August and Everything
After.
The Side Effects of Endorphins 