Eight Weeks of Summer

summer verbs for sure!

That's what I have before me...eight weeks of summer. It's always so overwhelming and full of promise at this point - the last day of my contract for the school year. Usually I make a nice list of "to do's" and start plotting how to cross them off before mid-August. I am resisting the temptation to do that this summer because it's going to be so different. I leave next Tuesday on a my summer adventure and while I will be various places near and far won't return for 5 weeks. Part of me is excited for my unusual adventure to begin and part of me is sad knowing that this summer won't be like all my others. But since it is unlike the others this unusual summer can't begin and follow my little to do list like every other summer, it must be different. I think it will have a motto instead of a to do list, one that's already begun to exert itself on me...Embrace the moment.

To me this means I enjoy each moment, that I live and love fully in each moment, that I make the best choice with the information I have at each turn and accept the results, that I breathe in the simple and sacred moments because each one will slip away ever so quickly. I generally tend to live in a hurried pace, but this summer I want to lay that aside and live in each moment not wishing for ones past or ones yet to come. I want to embrace the woman I am right now, not the one of yester-year or the one I am becoming just me, now. Come to think of it, this might be my best summer "to do" list yet.