You Need to Keep Going

You Need to Keep Going

From Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree by Ryan B. Anderson

October 8, 2025 · 7 min

About this episode

The episode explores the paradox of seasonal change as autumn struggles against lingering summer warmth.

It is October now, though you wouldn’t know it from the mercury rising the past week. The maples are rapidly growing bare and the leaves are crisp beneath our boots, yet the air hums with a misplaced summer heat. For days now, the warmth has lingered heavy, uninvited, strange. The bees are restless, spilling from their hives past twilight, agitated and uncertain of the season or their aims. The full moon hasn’t helped their confusion, nor mine. It has cast its silver light through the boughs and across the fields, waking the nocturnal; foxes, skunk, and deer wandering through the flower field and closer to the house than I would like. The children, too, have been taken by the moon. They beg to stay up late, to join in whatever quiet work remains before bed. This is fine. The heat lends itself to frustration in us older people, but tonight my little girl carried tools down the hill to me, barefoot and beaming her headlamp despite the moonlight, ferrying a hammer, a ruler, some nails while I mended a loose board in the honey house. There is a strange paradox to this season: one foot in autumn, the other stubbornly trying to reanimate summer. The leaves have fallen and turned to…

People in this episode

Host: Ryan B. Anderson

Topics covered

  • seasonal change
  • nature
  • family
  • autumn
  • summer
  • bees
  • moon

Keywords

  • October
  • maples
  • bees
  • moonlight
  • children
  • nature
  • autumn
  • summer

Mentioned in this episode

Places: October, the lake, the village

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