Design Your Summer

When I worked along the school calendar, I had summers off which I have to say was a regrettably underappreciated part of my previous job. Now I have a typical twelve month work calendar, but I don’t want summer to pass me by. My first year working through the summer, I took a short hiatus to visit my sister in Toms River. Last year, my list of NYC spring experiences carried me into the summer, and at the end of August I took a trip to Austria. I love the idea from Gretchen Rubin to “design your summer”; even if you’re an adult working twelve months a year, summer is special.

 

Some ideas:

• have a themed summer/name your summer
• have theme weeks
• think about the five senses of summer
• make a summer bucket list
• do a big fun project (like reread the Harry Potter series :-))
• free up as much time as possible – think about what can wait until after the summer

 

This summer, I’m hoping to work through more items on my 20 for 5784 list. I also want to visit a few exhibits in NYC (this, this, and this, lots of these). On a grander scale, I have a wedding in Israel in June followed by a short visit to…Prague! and hopefully will be able to travel again in August.

 

Two quotes that I love about summer:

Summer afternoon–summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-Henry James

And:

 

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer, one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

 -Lucy Maud Montgomery in  Anne’s House of Dreams

 

What will be your delightful doing this summer? I would love to hear about your summer plans!