I'm one of those people who thrive in the sun. Winter depresses me, with its limited daylight, giving way
to darkness long before my body clock has time to adjust. So it surprises the heck out of me, even though we've suffered relentless, record breaking heat in the northeast, laced with oppressive humidity for the most of the summer, that I've spent weeks secretly wishing this torture was over. An alien concept since from the time I was a little girl in school I looked forward every spring to this season with its promise of a break fom the regimen of homework and curfew, and a time strictly for fun. I longed for the smell of the ocean and the feeling of sand in my toes, even amused by the inevitable crunch of sand in my food, and I lamented its brevity. I never could understand how ten weeks of summer could feel so much shorter than the same ten weeks in the dead of winter. Now, here we are, at the very end of August, and for all intents and purposes, calendar notwithstanding, the summer is over. There's a sadness in that after all. In a very short time, as if responding to a cosmic trigger, the weather will start to change, setting in motion mother nature's challenge to make it through another winter.
The one thing I never understood was fashion's edict to abandon our white shoes and handbags, for something more appropriate to the season the minute Labor Day slipped into our very recent past. Community pools are drained, children are back in school and tans begin to fade. A strange and positive byproduct of the transition of seasons for me, has always been a sloughing off of old bad habits for a renewed and hopefully better version of myself. This year it comes in the form of two challenges, the 30 in 30 here, and Roger Mucci's weight loss and healthy eating group (Take It Off In The Rain) to begin on September 7th. I intend to make it to the finish line on both, a svelte, hopefully more giving blogger. Hope to see many of you right there with me.
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Graphics contained in this post courtesy of the prodigious talent of Jon Sullivan - PDPhoto.org
Author: Geri Sonkin, real estate broker associate/stager/decorator, serving the Long Island real estate market. For more information, visit www.LongIslandsBestHomes.com or www.AtHomeOnLongIsland.com
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