Slow Summer

Slow Summer

Everything slows in the summer business wise, but it speeds up personally.  With three kids free of the grid of school, there is so much to do, and so little time to do it.  Organization is key, but that also kind of kills the lazy summer feeling.

Business is of course slow, and it's hard to blame people.  Who can think of Disaster Prep now while the days are long and things feel so safe and secure?  It's probably the BEST time to do preparation, but then again, we have a lot of summer costs.  Vacations aren't cheap, and gas prices suddenly goes through the roof.

So far this summer we've had a big cookout at a local park camp, but it was a windy day so it became a struggle.  We've sent one son to Ireland, two boys to San Francisco, my wife visited L.A., and I've been the homebody.  I've gotten the family out for early morning football games. The competition and cool morning air keep us all in shape.  We've added some racquetball to the list of things we do to keep our bodies in shape as well as Tai Chi, bike riding, and Chi Kung.  

This summer we saw an ancestral home for 35+ years in the family get sold, and we've taken a long hard look at what we really want to offer in our lives as a gift to the world, and asked ourselves whether we are doing that to our fullest ability right now?  Things are so impermanent.

It's been an interesting summer.  There is a discontent in the air, and then again their is a magical settling.  How can you be both content and discontent at the same time?

As the saying goes: I think we live in interesting times....