Olympic Games! End of Summer themes! Black & Indigenous Lives Matter! Vaccination! Family! Politics! Climate crisis! Recipes! Back to school and college!
All month: Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month, National Black Business Month, National Immunization Awareness Month, National Water Quality Month
August 1: Food Day (Canada), Global Day of Unplugging
August 2: Civic/Public Holiday (Canada, Ireland), Friendship Day (United States)
August 2-8: National Farmer’s Market Week
August 7: International Beer Day
August 11-13: Perseids Meteor Shower
August 12: World Elephant Day
August 13: International Lefthanders Day
August 19: World Humanitarian Day
August 21: National Honey Bee Day
August 22: Full Sturgeon Moon
August 26: Women’s Equality Day
August 29: International Day against Nuclear Tests
Notable birthdays:
Maria Mitchell (August 1), Louis Armstrong, President Barack Obama (August 4), Neil Armstrong, Sharon Salzberg (August 5), Alfred Hitchcock (August 13), Julia Child (August 15), Dorothy Parker (August 22)
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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