Thankful Thursday: Love

“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of sum­mer
Those days of soda and pret­zels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of sum­mer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer …
You’ll wish that sum­mer could always be here
You’ll wish that sum­mer could always be here.”

Iris at Sting My Heart wrote about love today and I’m fol­low­ing her lead because it is a great topic for this hot sum­mer day.

Remem­ber that old Nat King Cole song? It was going through my head this after­noon as I was float­ing around the pool. Even though it was 110 degrees out­side, the water was cool and refresh­ing, so it really didn’t seem that hot until I got out and dis­cov­ered that I didn’t even need a towel because the air was so warm that the water seemed to instantly evaporate.

Yes, I love sum­mer. I love the water and the feel of the sun beat­ing down on me when I’m in the water. I tan very eas­ily, so I love that my skin gets a lit­tle darker each day and the sun streaks my hair my hair, sav­ing me the trou­ble and expense of hav­ing my hair­dresser do it! The sun makes me feel ener­getic and happy … like the world is full of noth­ing but possibilities.

Con­versely, I love the cool breeze wafts in my win­dow late most evenings, help­ing me unwind and pre­pare to sleep com­fort­ably in antic­i­pa­tion of another hot, hot day.

I can’t believe that it has been a whole week since I wrote here … I had a cou­ple dif­fer­ent groups of com­pany vis­it­ing from out of town. That was fun! We enjoyed some very lovely meals, lin­ger­ing over a glass of wine to visit, rem­i­nisce and laugh. It is so nice to have friends that I have known for vir­tu­ally my entire life. I don’t have to explain who I am or what I have expe­ri­enced. They know because they went through those expe­ri­ences with me. We have a col­lec­tive basis of knowl­edge about each other that spans child­hood, puberty, our crazy teen and col­lege years, and adulthood’s respon­si­bil­i­ties. So it is always excit­ing to have time to just sit and talk for awhile, espe­cially when we can do it out­side in the cool evening air.

And we cel­e­brated July Fourth, of course. We had the most deli­cious food … there were many peo­ple in our group and every­one con­tributed. The water­melon was so sweet and deli­cious and the straw­ber­ries were huge and juicy! I had one that was the size of my fist — and no, I’m not exaggerating!

I love that one day per year Amer­i­cans take time out of their busy lives to cel­e­brate sum­mer, fam­ily and the free­doms we take for granted the other 364 days. Yes, at the cel­e­bra­tion we attended there was a moment of silence observed for all sol­diers who paid the “ulti­mate price” on behalf of the United States, as well as acknowl­edg­ment of the vet­er­ans in the group and cur­rently serv­ing. Pol­i­tics were put aside to remem­ber those men and women who are obey­ing the direc­tives of their Com­man­der in Chief, gov­ern­ment and lower-level lead­ers, faith­fully serv­ing irre­spec­tive of their per­sonal opin­ions. I love that I got a lump in my throat dur­ing those moments, feel­ing thank­ful for all the bless­ings I have because of those who have served selflessly.

I love the fact that I may be away from the com­puter peri­od­i­cally through­out the remain­der of the sum­mer, so there may not be a new post from me each day but I will endeavor to be con­sis­tent because I have switched over to Word­Press because, among the software’s great fea­tures is the abil­ity to draft posts in advance and pub­lish them at a spe­cific time, even if you are aware from the com­puter. Have I men­tioned yet how much I love WordPress?

So … I am now thank­ful to be sign­ing off to go out on the patio to see if that cool breeze is kick­ing up yet. If not, the air con­di­tion­ing will have to remain on and I will be thank­ful for it.

Have a won­der­ful, thank­ful evening!

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