Victoria Erickson:
American author, poet, and founder of world-renowned creative writing workshops and immersions. The scope of Victoria’s writing work runs wide from energy healing using the tool of written language to international poetry retreats to hundreds of online creative workshops teaching thousands of students how to find their “genius” in writing and flow state. As a teacher, Victoria guides students to find their deepest truth, the story in everything, easeful flow state to unblock our innate creativity and deep presence in each moment. She believes that writing should come from a place of play even when working through the depths of the human experience. Victoria lives in Austin, Texas, with her two dogs.
August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.
This is a poetic description of ‘August’ as a month that feels unusually long, warm, quiet, and suspended in time.
What it suggests:
– “slow, gentle month” — August is imagined as calm, lazy, and unhurried.
– “stretches out the longest” — not literally the longest month, but it ‘feels’ long because late summer days can seem drawn-out and hazy.
– “yawns and lingers” — August is personified as sleepy, relaxed, and reluctant to end.
– “with the light in its palms” — evokes golden late-summer sunlight, warmth, and the feeling of holding onto summer before autumn arrives.
Overall, the quote captures the mood of ‘late summer nostalgia’:
Beauty, warmth, slowness, and the awareness that the season is beginning to fade.
✍️ Author and origin:
The quote is ‘commonly attributed to Victoria Erickson’, a contemporary writer known for lyrical prose, seasonal reflections, and nature-based imagery.
However, it is often circulated online as a standalone quote, and the ‘exact original source — such as a specific book, essay, or social media post — is not always clearly cited’. So the safest attribution would be:
> Attributed to Victoria Erickson
rather than giving a precise publication source unless you can verify it from one of her official books, website posts, or social media archives.
📌 Best citation wording:
If you want to use it, you could write:
> “August is the slow, gentle month…” — attributed to Victoria Erickson
or, if using formally:
> Victoria Erickson, attribution commonly circulated online; original source unverified.
If a year were in a clock, autumn would be the magic hour.
