Today is the last day of July and I am saddened. Saying goodbye to July is like ending a Saturday night. The next day is Sunday....and try as you might to enjoy it, you know that Monday follows close on its heels. Tomorrow is August 1st. And with the dawn of a new day...thoughts turn to back to school and real life...because the start of the school year....and schedules and routines loom large and dark ahead of us. Gone are the carefree days of summer...visions of beaches and sun and barbeques and picnics...and although we still have some summer left, we are now also concerned with details like back to school shopping, returning to college, and jobs and apartment hunting. As long as July was here, we thought we had time....because it was summer. But suddenly, as August arrives we are jolted back to reality.
So I bid a fond farewell, to vacations, carefree days at the beach, the promise of endless leisure time, corn on the cob, strawberry shortcake, hot air balloons...and all the other joys of our summer. I thought we had more time to paint those chairs and take some day trips...but August is here, and we must start planning for the fall. I will enjoy these last few days of summer but there will be the shadow of reality hanging over them.
"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
~ Henry James
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