Is it just September?

[rm]

I've heard from ex's I don't or barely speak to (sometimes there's a story there, largely, it's just time), college peers I've not communicated with in years etc etc etc ALL MONTH LONG. I just got another one (this on the pleasant spectrum of surprise). I know some of you have gotten a lot of the similar lately.

What is with that?

And do you reach out to people from your dim past in September?

It's not that I didn't feel the urge when the weather changed, it's that I resisted it.

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[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. For me, September has always been a mixed month, as I had a ten-year streak of Septembers wherein at least three people I knew (several years running, it was three family members) died in September. You get tired of September funerals....

But I think it is a starting school year, checking on old friends/acquaintances/family, settling in for autumn and winter....

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Of course, I've also worked for twenty years in educational non-profits, so my "year" runs September-June, with July and August spent cleaning up the previous year and prepping for the new one.