Has it been a year???

Plus some?

hmmmmm... Before I leave on a field trip tomorrow, I'll leave you with this...

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay

Extra credit to the dedicated reader that can name the movie that included that quote...

I'm barely, barely dipping my toe in the water. Barely. Flicking the water around just a little bit, smelling the salt air and remembering how it felt to dive in without thinking that
there might be a rock!
I might hit my head!
I could get stung by a jellyfish!
There could be sharks!
That look like goldfish!

I remember how that felt---- I remember the freedom of being me--- just opening up a vein and bleeding off the excess on the page. I remember not thinking of ulterior motives. I remember the innocence. I remember assuming the best in people.

I don't know if I am going to do this--- I don't know if I dive without the layer of bubble wrap. I don't know.

But I remember. I remember what it felt like.

A new chance to do things differently...

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

Now that my oldest offspring is officially done with school, summer has truly started in the cmhl household. It started with a bang, actually, as I had an angiogram this week after a funky stress test. THAT is an experience I don't want to repeat again in this century!! All is well and I have a perfectly clean bill of health in my back pocket, and I feel like the future is wide open and filled with sun-dappled possibilities.

So tell me, what does your summer look like? What is different in your world during the summer, as opposed to the other nine months of the year? What are you going to do differently this year?