A New Summer, A New Blog
May 4, 2009
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.”
Ada Louise Huxtable
The intoxicating euphoria of summer is upon us all. The promise of freedom still ringing in our ears, we lose no time in doing nothing and rush forth to forget all that we’ve learned in the cold months past. In the begning, all is good and no one will tell us differently. Of course, we are sadly mistaken. Time is relative, the seasons a social construction, vacation an abstract idea that few can truly appreciate, and summer comes with its own pitfalls and travesties – more perhaps, than other seasons because we fool ourselves into thinking there is no time better than summer.
But while it lasts, while our delusions still linger with us, while we have not lost all to the cynicism of old age, let us raise glasses of cold sweet tea to a season that fools us into lowering our guards for longer than a moment. Thank god for a culture based enough on agriculture to warrant an antiquated vacation, for the delusion of summer’s freedom, and the youth to both appreciate and take for granted how lucky we truly are. Here’s to summer and all of it’s heartache.
