A Monday meander: Summer days and summer fun

From the boardwalk in Ocean City (Maryland).

In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

~ Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.”

―Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

A little of this and that

A glimpse of Philadelphia.

These are pregnant times throughout the world. Just as in geology we have breaking lines between huge blocks of earth, so today we are at the juncture between great blocks of time. This is the place of storm and volcano – and of becoming. In today’s reality, a small act can have far-reaching consequences, beyond imagination, whereas things that will be done five or ten years from today will be so much less effective. This is precisely the meaning of pregnant times: Anything can be born. And this is exactly the time when one must not sleep.

~ Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Parabola

Suspended in time

In the woods.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

~ Henry James

I took a walk in the woods the other day and in the middle of the pathway, hanging in mid-air, was a small cluster of pine needles.  This morning I came across the quote by Henry James and the two fit together so well that I couldn’t resist sharing the coincidence.

On the boardwalk

Somewhere on the boardwalk in Ocean City

Fun is fundamental.  There is no way around it.  You absolutely must have fun.  Without fun, there is no enthusiasm.  Without enthusiasm there is no energy.  Without energy, there are only shades of gray.

~ Doug Hall