I walked today in the light of what feels like an early fall morning. My walk wasn’t long because I have not been feeling good of late. Still, the cool morning air and the growing light dancing among the pines cheered me. The air seemed clean and it was dry. It was a moment of peace without expectation. My footsteps were a prayer of thanks for a wonderful start to the day and a plea that what follows will be as positive.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Summer is at an End, almost.
August in Michigan, especially after about the 20th, hints strongly of the coming fall. Days while still warm and sometimes even quite hot give way to nights where covers are comforting. School lives just beyond the upcoming holiday weekend.
My kids are off this day to go to the high school and to get ID pictures taken. Hopefully they will both be able to pick up class schedules. My oldest, Primus, missed his picture and schedule day in that we were on holiday. However he is a senior and the expectation is that he will go to a professional photographer for his senior yearbook shots. He is there in the hope, perhaps vain that he can get his schedule.
Michigan and its educational rituals are weird or our high school is weird. When and where I grew up in South Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia the difference relative to a senior picture versus any other picture was that you wore a jacket and bought a bigger package that you did as a sophomore, junior, etc. You also bought engraved name cards. Together they were shoved into envelopes and sent to relatives in the hope money would return. Now the senior picture is a whole photo shoot. $$$$ out the pocket. Ugh. And instead of mailed monetary solicitations you hold an open house and invite tons of people in the hope they will come and eat catered food and bring tribute. Double Ugh.
I guess why I am writing this is to note the warm season is coming to an end. It has been a dry and hot summer. I will miss it. The signs are here. Football at the university is coming up soon. Sigh. I really will miss summer this time.
My kids are off this day to go to the high school and to get ID pictures taken. Hopefully they will both be able to pick up class schedules. My oldest, Primus, missed his picture and schedule day in that we were on holiday. However he is a senior and the expectation is that he will go to a professional photographer for his senior yearbook shots. He is there in the hope, perhaps vain that he can get his schedule.
Michigan and its educational rituals are weird or our high school is weird. When and where I grew up in South Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia the difference relative to a senior picture versus any other picture was that you wore a jacket and bought a bigger package that you did as a sophomore, junior, etc. You also bought engraved name cards. Together they were shoved into envelopes and sent to relatives in the hope money would return. Now the senior picture is a whole photo shoot. $$$$ out the pocket. Ugh. And instead of mailed monetary solicitations you hold an open house and invite tons of people in the hope they will come and eat catered food and bring tribute. Double Ugh.
I guess why I am writing this is to note the warm season is coming to an end. It has been a dry and hot summer. I will miss it. The signs are here. Football at the university is coming up soon. Sigh. I really will miss summer this time.
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