If April is my favorite Month in Spring...July must certainly be the very BEST month of summer!
Family and friends. BBQ's and Beaches. Long hot sunny days basking with a good summer read. Watermelon and fireflies. Holidays and fireworks :) Flowers blooming and frogs in the evenings.Homemade lemonade and home grown tomatoes. Warm summer rain.
Ready for Summer Fun!
A bit of an interruption in July plans for Idgy and I (...circumstances beyond our control...) had to bump our previously scheduled holiday up to early September...but the good news is that it will give us 2 weeks, extra cash and a road-trip together...so THAT made it better than okay!
Even if we are back to
more days "in the box"
~sigh~
Hey, no problem...we have COFFEE and BISCOTTI here...and sometimes even come up with solutions to the World's Problems.
Not a bad way to spend an hour each morning!
For the last 9 years.
(...Millstone and Nonni's should give us a discount...)
Busy plotting and planning the 4th of July Festivities!
Grabbed a slender book of poems by Iraq Vet: Kevin Powers, today. Powers is the author of Hemingway Award Winner The Yellow Birds.
The book of poetry is entitled Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting. And is amazing, thought provoking, eye opening and at at times gut-wrenching. The Iraq War and the Aftermath as depicted by one of its soldiers...in prose. When he forms in poetry the horrors of the Superior officers using village children for mine-sweeping detail...at a dollar a mine...you'll cry. When he explains through prose what it is like to come back State-side after being hyper-alert through multiple tours and try to get through a regular city outing...you will begin to understand. After finishing this piece my reaction was to sit stunned. Definitely an "oh wow" moment.
Can't say too many good things about this compilation of thoughts.
In queue for Yellow Birds now.
More anon...
