Signal Fire by Tyler Knott Gregson

Signal Fire by Tyler Knott Gregson

A Season Of New Learning | Kindling 9.2.25

Sparks For A Brighter Life

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Tyler Knott Gregson
Sep 02, 2025
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At great, great length I have written about my feelings about this Autumn season, specifically the last weeks of August and the very first weeks of September. There’s this bizarre melancholic pull to the heart of me that I know, after much, much investigation, is anchored on the other end to the fact that this is when school used to begin again each year. I will forever associate these weeks, this early Autumn season, with school beginning again, and I will always feel a bizarre nostalgic ache for it, no matter how old I get. If you wanna read some of those pieces, start maybe with the following:

In Autumn, We Begin Again | 9.8.24

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September 8, 2024
In Autumn, We Begin Again | 9.8.24

I thought it was the light, for a long while I thought this. The quality of it, the angle it comes and spreads itself across this tiny part of this giant planet. Maybe it’s the light, I would think and rethink and wonder about for years and years. Had to be the light.

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Anyway, today we’re gonna jump into that feeling, and we’re gonna wrap up in the feeling we used to get when we’d begin again, fresh, in a new school year. Let’s go…

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