We haven’t been home much this week. We haven’t been at my parents’ pool, either, so this picture reflects my mental state more than my physical one.
The summer is going by fast and I feel desperate. I want to lay down on top of it and use all my weight to make it stop, to look up at the sky while floating and not see life spinning in the prisms of water on my lashes. We are having a wonderful time together and I don’t want it to end. Autumn isn’t the conclusion, but there is something about the sound of leaves scraping the ground that highlights the march of time.
July brightens, September threatens, and August sits there waiting like a benediction.
My feelings exactly. I love your last line.
Oh my gosh. “Lay down on top of it… and make it stop.” So true, and written so perfectly. I feel the same way.
Enjoy your days of summer!!
God I love you!!
What a wonderful candid photograph. It’s beautiful.
This is exquisette and simply made my morning. Thank you for your gift of words, happy summer to you.
Great words and lovely photo. Such sweet boys. Takes me back to when my two boys were little.
Oh, I sooo hear you. Mine is starting school a week from Tuesday and I desperately want to hit the pause button.
So true … sigh.
Well done.