The Long and the Short of It

Summer can be an endless stream of undifferentiated days, but it can also be a mad dash of time between one school year and another.

This is the dichotomy I live with each year. There is so much to be done during the summer: plan for the next school year, paint, complete projects, etc. Yet in another sense there is so little to occupy the time, and there is pure bliss is just bumming around the pool, traveling, and relaxing.

So here we are, two weeks into summer vacation. It feels like a lifetime ago that I had to work. It feels like the summer has just begun. But the dates betray the fact that the summer is speeding along. If I take into account dates that have already been "committed" to activities or trips, the summer is already almost over. But then that's the way it usually goes.