9-10 August

WEEKEND DIARIES

This summertime has been a actually cool one. The nights bring oft dipped into the fifties, as well as many days bring but barely hitting lxxx degrees. Humidity has been low, the Sun as well as breeze abundant. This summertime has been perfect.

I await I powerfulness experience differently if I spent the twelvemonth looking frontward to long days at the beach, Corona inwards hand, reading fluffy novels as well as relaxing. If my trouble solid had cardinal air conditioning. If I didn't move inwards a political party of 4 dependents as well as a double stroller (I honey my double, but afterward flight adult solo to virtually every soccer practise as well as game this summer, I am so tired of loading it inwards as well as out of the van...). And I honey wearing shorts amongst long sleeve tops sans sweat. If this is summer, it tin move teach on forever.

But the flavor is laid about to change. The insects audio different, to a greater extent than insistent. Fallen maple leaves bring scattered themselves across the driveway, summertime dark-green giving agency to tinges of cerise as well as yellow. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hint of sadness is inwards the air, a hint that gains forcefulness when the clouds momentarily drift betwixt Sun as well as earth, or when the air grows withal but earlier dusk.

I was contemplating these things on Saturday, when nosotros came across a bunch of children's Christmas books on sale at the local library. At 25 cents a pop, I snapped upward twelve of them. The invention is to set them away until December, as well as thus comprise them into our Christmas preparations.

In to a greater extent than or less foreign way, finding those books gave a counterpoint to the melancholy of summer's waning. Thoughts of white twinkling lights, the subtle odor of evergreen, vivid warmth against the cold, potent spicy beer, the always novel joy of Emmanuel. And suddenly that gnaw of imminent decay had lost its bite.