“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden What is August if not a season of renewal? In some ways, it is more a new beginning than spring, not for the earth but, for society. From our youth, the school cycle carves into us a yearning to turn over our leaves and shed old things. Our new year is the school year. You can be anyone in a new school year, returning from summer with new shoes...