It’s official! Summer is beginning, at least per the calendar. If you live in the Phoenix area then you may agree with me that it has been here for a good month. Take a few seconds to recall one of your favorite summer games or activities from when you were a kid. Can you feel it? Fun, exhilaration, adventure all come up for me. Picture a tall tree that with the lowest branch next to a neighbors back wire fence. Foot holds in the fence give access to that first branch, up I climb, arm reaching then foot following for the next branch. Up and up, finally sitting near the top. My sister and I looking out at the great view. My heart pounding from the climb and the height. Then a breeze comes and we sway; nervous giggling starts. This is summer thriving.
What will you do to thrive this summer? If you can’t physically go somewhere then take a few minutes and go there in your mind; your imagination will take you there.
Four years ago this week, I started writing these posts. What a journey it has been. Thank you so much for joining me here, whether its been for a day or years. I am so grateful for your being here and especially for all the comments and feedback that I have received. Here’s to many more years of thriving!
My boy Oliver is in the picture. He is old enough to be a bit retired from his dog duties. When I arrive home, most of the time he greets me this way: laying down but looking up at me with smiling eyes and a few wags of the tail. The saltillo tile helps keep him cool in our hot desert summer.