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Summer Breaks
September 5, 2006
Untitled ~ Canon 30d
I can feel it! Can you feel it? All around me, summer is breaking.
I lost my appreciation for summer after graduating from college when responsibility took the place of fancy-free-footloose summer breaks. I now look forward to a different sort of summer break ~ the moment when August's hard shell of searing heat cracks open, allowing the autumnal river of relief to kill the fever and cool the hell-firey flames burning beneath my feet. September, no longer a symbol of the dreaded return to classrooms and schoolboxes filled with paste, protractors, and 3-ring binders, is welcomed with the kind of wild embracing usually reserved for long-lost friends or relatives. Autumn swells inside my Scandinavian heart. A heart crafted for climates snow-laced and frosted-filled, with pumpkin bellies glowing, and laughing sleighbells dancing 'cross moonlit snowdrifts. I'm a woman genetically predisposed toward biting frostlicks and hearthglow burning deep in my soul.
I can hear summer stumbling under his weighty hubris all around me. Raindrops tapping upon the window pane like celebratory clinking of champagne glasses! Bloated insects crawling with dreaded purpose toward the last breath of first frost. Whining children marching to jubilant schoolbell chimes where they will hopefully learn to respect themselves and their fellow citizens. The sound of the self-absorbed tapping out the numbers of tanning salons to maintain their bronze exteriors. Summer's drunken final staggers, sagging and crumbling as the tarry pavement congeals beneath the tires of my sun-bleached MINI Cooper.
Good-Bye Summer! Honestly, my dear, I don't give a damn... because I'm free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm FREE AT LAST!
Posted by susan at September 5, 2006 10:18 AM
