
Continuously Brave
August Is Allowed to Be Quiet
<p></p><p>It’s August.</p><p>And everything is loud.</p><p>The sun, the expectations, the should’s.</p><p>And I’ve been thinking about what it means to be in the thick of summer — when everyone seems to be off on adventures, out and about, making the most — and I’m... still here. Still lying down. Still trying to cool my body with frozen water bottles and quiet the internal hum of why can’t I?</p><p>I used to feel like summer was this test I was always failing.</p><p>Like if I wasn’t out u...






