A Commonplace Book

Category: September...

  • Virgo, sapphire, aster, Libra
  • To be "septembered" is to be multihued in autumnal colors.
  • cleaning up the garden at the end of September: pulling up annuals, chopping down perennial stalks, weeding thoroughly
  • Latin septem "seven" is the base of September, which was its position in the early Roman calendar
  • September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange flowers, swallows, and regret. (A. Theroux)
  • The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening. (W.E. Geist)
  • My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. (Groucho Marx)
  • that buckle-down-and-work feel of September

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