LIMITLESS - a moment in time
August by Mickey Dunaway
Despite the dog days of summer and that hunting season didn’t start until November, and the fish were hiding in the shady spots I couldn’t reach with the wiggler on the end of my fishing pole, I still awaited the month of August most of my life. In 1952, I started the first grade at Wilmer Elementary in the very small west Mobile County, Alabama town of Wilmer. I retired as an Associate Professor Emeritus from UNCC in July 2017 in the big city of Charlotte. Between those years, I worked as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, district administrator, and university professor in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, and North Carolina. 84
LAKE NORMAN CURRENTS | AUGUST 2022
At every stop along the way, August was always a month of anticipation and excitement—a month to continue where I had left off in June, a month to pick up from last year, a month to do better than the year before. For me, the end of August was the opening of Pandora’s box, which would soon deliver a stream of ideas and opportunities for the next nine months. I wonder, now that I have written this introduction, can I find examples of people who, throughout history, have approached August with this same attitude of joyous expectations? Let’s just see.
