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Summer

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on Jul. 24, 2010

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Long car rides with the window down, music loud, one arm hot.  Feeling like you’ve had your hair blow dried except it’s just from riding your bike.

Thinking it’s 6:30 when it’s really 8:45. The slow creeping cool night spreading like a melting ice cube. Outlasting mosquitos on the patio.

BBQ tang, BBQ tongs, BBQ pineapple slices soaked in coconut milk and ground cinnamon.

The stickiness of clean cotton sheets on damp skin.  Pillows that you have to turn over and turn over and turn over in search of the cool side.

Movies. Seeing them once, seeing them again.  Hearing the people around you cheer in the darkness.  Fireworks, a green and purple and red imitation of nature’s Northern Lights.

Between work and more work, vacation. Reading a book, cover to cover, in one sitting.  Ordering a coffee, cold.

Throwing your graduation cap in the air, and then trying to find a job before it hits the ground.

Dubious glances in the mirror at your body in a bathing suit, then saying ‘What the hell’ and jumping into the water.  Water in your nose.  Water in your ears.  Water dripping through the slats of the plastic chair that you’re sitting in, thinking about jumping in the water again.

A cold snap of beer from a hard glass bottle.

The feeling of the back of someone’s head leaning on your stomach and a rustic blanket underneath you.

A springy branch snapped back in your face as you make a short cut through the woods to a vantage point that looks out over a stream, a forest, a valley, a mountain range, the earth, the sky.

Fresh berries in your breakfast cereal instead of a banana.

Tote bags filled with cheese and crackers and towels and sunscreen.

Changing out of shorts and into a dress shirt and tie to sit in the sun and watch someone you care about marry someone they care about.

Summer.



 
 

 

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Overheard

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

...who said it?

“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”

...who said it?

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

...who said it?

“I play with variables constantly.”

...who said it?

“Only the person who has learned Continual Love coming from a heart of Gratitude/Worship can effectively deal with the problem of loneliness.”

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