End of Summer! Back to school and college! Climate crisis! Family! Recipes! Equal rights and politics!
All month: National Dog Month, Black Business Month, National Immunization Awareness Month, National Water Quality Month
August 1: World Lung Cancer Day, International Childfree Day, Universal Birthday for Shelter Dogs
August 4: National Sisters Day
August 4-10: National Farmer’s Market Week
August 6: Hiroshima Day
August 8: International Cat Day
August 9: Book Lovers Day, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
August 11: Summer Olympics end
August 12: World Elephant Day
August 13: International Left-handers Day
August 17: National Honey Bee Day
August 19: Full Sturgeon Supermoon, World Humanitarian Day, World Photography Day
August 22: National Rainbow Baby Day
August 26: Women’s Equality Day, International Dog Day
Notable birthdays:
James Baldwin, Isabelle Allende (August 2), President Barack Obama (August 4), Neil Armstrong, Sharon Salzberg (August 5), Alfred Hitchcock (August 13), Julia Child (August 15), Charles Bukowski (August 16), 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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