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It feels as much a new start as the turn of the calendar year does, as days begin to cool and daylight hours shrink. August is sliding into September and a new school year is starting. Having long since left school I slip easily back into this pattern for my PhD. The structure of my time is almost entirely (if not completely) in my control, necessary also in managing an unreliable body, but the dipping sun and ripening berries are powerful cues to be refocusing and returning to writing and projects.