I just learned a new word.
I was double checking that today is, indeed the summer solstice and I saw that another word for this day is the estival solstice. Estival comes from the Latin word aestus, which means heat.
I’m surprised I didn’t know this word already. I might have mentioned my MFA thesis was titled All the Desert Places but it was originally …
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