Summer isn't about creating new stuff, but recapturing old. It’s simple pleasures, old songs, eating outdoors, hummingbirds, fireflies, ice cream trucks.
Laurie is concentrating on fleeting summer beauty; orange daylilies, white egrets, sailboats, a honeysuckle-scented breeze, ripe, red tomatoes and pink geraniums in the sun.with its dramatic, “before-I-die” goals, create a teacup list. Rather than feeling panicked that you haven’t gone on that cross-country road trip or hiked Thailand or parachuted in the Gobi desert, you shrink all expectations. With this in mind, here in no particular order are the small things I wish to do this summer.
As I write this, I realize that summers aren’t so much about creating new stuff, but recapturing old. Enjoying summer was easy as kids. Most of us did what we wanted. We didn’t need a list — teacup, bucket or otherwise. We didn’t care if we went to Thailand or rode off to California on Route 66. We were happy just to be alive and free for a few months.
And maybe that’s the key to summer. It’s all about simple pleasures — old songs, eating outdoors, hummingbirds, fireflies, potato salad, pink geraniums, and, of course, ice cream trucks.Laurie Stone writes from the woods of Easton, Conn. Her blog,
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