Summer is:

• sleeping til 5
• shorts, tee, flops EVERY DAY
• Mah Jongg at will
• fireflies
• geraniums that look beautiful slightly past their prime (so am I)
• hydrangeas
• listening to only sounds I love
• no lesson plans, morning duty, pizza/corn/fries Mondays
• no one asking me to buy a Boston Butt, or cookie dough, or wrapping paper
• fresh cut grass
• dinner outside with my baby boy
• dinner outside with my favorite ex-husband
• more angst from Elizabeth (genetically programmed I think)
• new love for Alan
• daylight til 9
• honeysuckle
• magnolias
• gardenias
• neighborhood kids playing in the sprinkler
• visiting with their parents while wishing we could do it
• lunch with great friends
• all beaches
• too many talks with my MR yard man
• daylilies!!!!
• farmers market veggies
• grilled fish
• gym when I want, if I want
• books
• coffee on the deck with the hummers
• chasing Harper Lee around the hood
• tomato sandwiches
• sun and shade
• reflection
• rest
• rejuvenation

Thank you. And Amen.