End of Summer! Back to school and college! Climate crisis! Family! Recipes! Equal rights and politics!
All month: National Dog Month, National Black Business Month, National Immunization Awareness Month, National Water Quality Month
August 1: Full Sturgeon Supermoon, World Lung Cancer Day, International Childfree Day, Universal Birthday for Shelter Dogs
August 4: International Beer Day
August 6: National Sisters Day, Hiroshima Day
August 6-12: National Farmer’s Market Week
August 8: International Cat Day
August 9: Book Lovers Day, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
August 12: World Elephant Day, Full Sturgeon Moon
August 13: International Lefthanders Day
August 19: World Humanitarian Day, National Honey Bee Day
August 22: National Rainbow Baby Day
August 26: Women’s Equality Day, International Dog Day
August 30: Blue Sturgeon Supermoon
Notable birthdays:
James Baldwin (August 2), President Barack Obama (August 4), Neil Armstrong, Sharon Salzberg (August 5), Alfred Hitchcock (August 13), Julia Child (August 15), Dorothy Parker (August 22), Paulo Coelho (August 24)
Any other holidays or birthdays or death-days or anniversaries of great events—go for it! And as always we would love to see more articles about genuine spirituality, eco-responsibility, permaculture, mindful parenting, of-benefit politics, anything timely/newsie that is a gateway to mindfulness, yoga with integrity, and equal rights beyond aggression
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