Summertime and the Livin’ is Easy?
DuBose Heyward wrote the lyrics to, “Summertime”, with George and Ira Gershwin providing the melody: “Summertime and the livin’ is easy…”
They lied.
There has been no easy livin’ in my home this summer. I have been working two jobs, toiling over “staging” my house for sale, trying to keep up with my reading and worrying over the fact that I have not posted a blog since May. MAY!
I view summer as a time when I can accomplish all the things I could not do during the school year. Unfortunately, I fail to realize that I still have to do all the tasks I am responsible for during the school year. I somehow forget I am not a student. I do not get a summer vacation. I still have to work, take care of the house and the family. All of those accomplishments I put off until summer, thinking I would have more time, are still sitting in a pile waiting for me – staring at me.
So here I sit, on erev Elul, knowing the shofar is going to blow tomorrow morning to signal me to begin considering my accomplishments of the past year while looking to perhaps change my behavior for the upcoming year. My pile of “to-do’s” may still be sitting there when the Rosh Hashanah shofar blows signaling the New Year has arrived…but at least I will have written a blog or two.
Happy Reading,
Kathy B.
Tags: Elul, Rosh Hashanah, shofar, Summertime
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Yes, I have also noticed that I make the same mistake year after year, in thinking that ’summer’ is synonomous with ‘down time’. It simply isn’t, as the transitions: from school to camp to vacation to work, all wth disparate childcare needs and accounting for everyone’s varied vacation schedules, etc, in reality, happen at a more challenging pace than at other times during the year.
But this year I have come to realize that the heat, of which I’m a fan, does slow down the mind, body and spirit. Reading happens more. Hanging with the neighbors happens more, as does playing in the garden and finding treasures in rocks and shells on the beach. Even if these things can only happen on the weekends, evenings and vacations, they are unequivocally the best blood pressure reducers on the planet. Thanks for your blogs…