Well, hello, everyone. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here. And thank you so much for joining me for today's

episode. And thank you also for your patience this summer as I plan to bring this podcast back in summer,

and it is technically still summer right now. However, I just didn't get around to getting the new

episodes up as soon as I had planned.

And I am now currently in the fall semester, the second year of my PhD program, and on top of

just school stuff and life stuff and everything else just in the world at large, I'm also

teaching two undergraduate classes this semester. So

I now have something extra on my schedule that I didn't have before. And I'm slowly finding a

rhythm again, even in terms of where I'm recording episodes. I'm, the room that I'm recording

right now is not soundproofed the way that I

needed to be. However, I just wanted to record something. I was like, I have to get something up

before September starts. So this is me just taking a deep breath amidst all of the

fragments of episodes that I have been working on and

recording and just pressing record on this new episode just to share something for moving into

September. So I'm going to read a poem that I've been working on for the past few weeks,

and it's called at the threshold of

August and September.

As you move towards September, may you always remember all the changing winds of August

you already made it through, for somehow, through the push and pull of everything,

they did not overtake you.

Yes, you have felt it all,

and you have also made it here.

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