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What Stayed With Me #2

notebook entries, August 2026

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Lou Blaser
Aug 30, 2026
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Dear friends,

I’m ending this month kicking and screaming. August went by way too fast for me; feels like I’m missing a few days! It definitely didn’t feel like the dog days of summer, lemme tell ya. I was too busy — and not with fun, summery stuff either. Chores! Long to-do lists! Ugh.

But through it all, I managed to read a few books and see some films I enjoyed quite a bit. Here’s what stayed with me.

Hope you’re having a fun-tastic summer.

Talk soon,
Lou

What Stayed With Me is a monthly note for paying supporters — a few things that caught my attention, didn’t turn into essays, but hung around in my head anyway. A passage from a book. A line from a conversation. Something I read and haven’t stopped thinking about.

These are entries in my notebook, offered as a small thank you for supporting Shaping Life. 🙏

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