Summer Is Coming

As a Florida native you could say I'm a big fan of summer. Heat, humidity that threaten to stifle your breathing by 2pm is suddenly washed away by a deluge of the regular afternoon thunderstorm followed by a seabreeze that cools the evening as dark comes.

That is home for me, that is summer.

As children we look forward to summer and the freedom it offers with no school and long days stretching full of sunshine and the hours in the pool or walking barefoot in the grass to keep them cool. As adults the idea of summer vacation is more of a dream we remember than something to look forward to with the anticipation similar to a cool ice cream.

Whenever adulthood interupted the freedom of your life by 30 it's a safe bet that you haven't had a summer vacation for a while. This lack is what makes 30 seem so old and intimidating - lack of freedom, of childhood innocence, of lazing away the day.

What can we do to recapture summer for ourselves?

Me - I'm headed home for the weekend - where the forecast includes sunny skies and temperatures reaching 90 degrees. I might even indulge in an icecream cone by the pool while I'm there.

What will you do?