subject: Ode To Summer [print this page] Only One Week Left, But We Cling To It Only One Week Left, But We Cling To It
by Michael D. Hume, M.S.
Technically, we only have one week of summer left in North America (though it'll seem like summer for at least a couple more months at our winter home in Palm Springs). However, September always seems to remind us that summer can linger... and that it's important to enjoy every minute of it while it lasts. Every evening, I make it a point to enjoy the sunset. Across the road here in the southern Colorado countryside, around sunset time, I hear the familiar creak of the swingset in my neighbor's yard, and I know the young girl over there is out enjoying the sultry summer evening. School may be back in session, but for her, it's still summer... at least until the cold weather moves in and makes after-school swinging unpleasant.
I love that sound. I love to hear that swingset creaking - it reminds me that the evening is mild and pleasant, that kids still enjoy their swingsets, and although the calendar reminds us all that fall is fast approaching the summer is not finished yet. It holds on. Just as my young neighbor girl does, summer holds on a bit longer and refuses to yield to colder weather.
It's a metaphor, really. Summer reminds me of youth... and when September rolls around, and summer hangs on in defiance of the fall, I remember that we are all doing the same: hanging on, defying the fall, defying the winter of our lives.
I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to give in just yet. I'm not ready for the fall. Not this year, and not in my life. I have too much to do: too many adventures to pursue, too many fun things to do, too many lessons to learn.
It can't be fall yet.
So for now, like the neighbor girl, let me just enjoy the last bit of summer. Let me swing! Let my feet lift high into the air, a crimson sunset behind them, each time the swing takes me forward. Let me dream about tomorrow, and the next day, and as many days after that as I'm given before the snow flies.
Let's all be kids in the summer time. Healthy, happy, and full of the fullness of life.
Ode To Summer
By: Michael Hume
welcome to Insurances.net (https://www.insurances.net)
