“is it enough to write a song and sing it to the birds?”

When I wake up early, it’s cool and it smells like summer, there’s a lawn mower in the distance, I feel like I should grab my jump rope and run down to play underneath our clotheslines for the morning. The holly hocks would be blooming by the side of the white farm house, both my brothers still sleeping (one only a baby), the black-spotted cat would run from the porch to the barn when she heard me coming.

Of course, now that I’m not seven, I usually get up early only for important things like work or class.

Usually over the summer I rush home to start working, because if I don’t, I will slip into a boredom that threatens my sanity. This summer is a little different. I feel ready to relax. I have a summer job, here as a student writer, so I do not have to worry about what I will do with my time. This school year I worked harder than I ever have in my life. All of my senior projects are now finished. Oh, and I’m getting married next January. All in all, I’m ready for a little bit of a vacation. =)

Luckily, I will be taking a little bit of a break in May to visit my family in Alabama. I mapped out my summer reading list and am ready to dive into it. And Greg and I have a small show in a cafe near his hometown slated for July, so I am ready to start work on that imagery. Is it odd that I consider those things a vacation?

Probably.

In any case, if you are bored of your music and want something summery and acoustic, I recommend the Weepies. They are nice, and their lyrics have provided titles for quite a few of my last posts.

(10 days until graduation)

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