I know, I know. So where is the book? Well, books are made up of words and I am in love with words so I thought I'd do a doodle of how the name "Summersgaze" came to be. I get this calendar every year called "Forgotten Words" and about 10 years ago, one of the words, I think, was "summersgaze." I say I think because I can't locate any references to it now. But I do remember how it had something to do with how the word "gossamer" came to be. In late summer, geese molt and feathers float all about. (We had geese so I can attest to the floating feathers.) Somehow the floating feathers and the gossamer that floats about in the sky in early autumn -- those two things became associated. I know that this makes absolutely no sense but that is how I came up with "Summersgaze." And I really wish I could find that calendar entry -- I tore it out and put it someplace safe because I thought it was such a beautiful word, "summersgaze."
And this is apropos of nothing but the other day the comic strip "Shoe" had a pretty phrase: "sustained darkness with scattered stars."
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