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One of my favorite authors is William Faulkner, and one of my favorite books he wrote is Light in August. Faulkner discussed this broader meaning of the book’s title in this way:   …in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, …

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Each spring I love to listen Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copeland. I have not spent a lot of time in Appalachia in the spring—in fact, very little. Nevertheless, I find the first section, “Very Slowly” that lasts only two minutes and forty seconds, a piece of music that evokes scenes of misty mountains just beginning …

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