The pavement was hot this afternoon, radiating heat from its black asphalt top, making the day very humid.  We were in suburbia where all roads are big, wide, and long.  The buildings lining the sides of the “highway-like” main streets were heated as well.  It was one large, integrated, oven.  I couldn’t wait to get out of the parking lot and into the air-conditioned mall, and coming out, I couldn’t wait to get into the car and turn on the energy-sucking air-conditioning as well.  What made this situation overbearing was the constant sunshine.  It is much pleasanter on a beach,  in this circumstance, as I would not be covered in clothes.  I would have the sunscreen, a good pair of sunglasses, and possibly a movable umbrella to park over top of my movable beach chair.  (And probably, I would get the chance to get drunk if I had bought something all-inclusive!)  In any case, today’s weather was a welcome start to the summer season.

I was thinking only good thoughts.  And, who wouldn’t if they had such nice weather?  The sales were on in the shops, and having my cell phone with me, made me relax because I wasn’t anxious about missing the links to all the work happening.

So, my mind also seems to speed in this good weather.  I think fast, sometimes, furious thoughts.  “Furious” as in fast with a tail of heat that is pleasant, blazing an idea or chasing a laugh.  It is easy to think from  one thing to another.  I could only laugh, all afternoon.  This made me a little looser with my pocketbook, and I let myself make many dollar sale purchases.

I looked forward to getting home, as I had this itch again.  This itch to put my ideas in to an essay, so that I have more than just a memory of sunshine and beaches.

The fun thing about the four seasons, is that we are willing to suffer a lot, in order to enjoy the best weather.  Even if the best weather is actually here for less than a quarter of the year.  We put all this tolerance, all this thought forward, all this endurance, into our hearts and minds, so that the best weather is truly as it is…  As it truly exists.  We have no dispute.

And back home, doing the usual things (outside it is still “unusually” hot and sunny… compared to just one week ago), doing the usual things also seems easier and more fun to do.  It is not, something that will take two hours….  It is something that will splish splash, and be all clean, again, with no idea where the time went!  So, I will do the laundry, and I will make an easy dinner on the grill.  Then we will oh so comfortably and oh so easily fall asleep tonight.  I know in the morning, because I got the activity and I didn’t stress out, and I was relaxed, with rest and confidence in the world, that I will be very well-rested.  I am looking forward to having times like these more often.  I am hoping that it is not just this time of year when I will have times like these.  I have hope.

The coming global warming trend does trouble me.  I worry that good things will be harder to find and that it will take more money to find any of it.  I am always afraid of the future, as what I have now is only sufficient for now, and not another fifty years.  I am part of a group of people where great change happened to us all very very quickly in a short span of time.  There is no prediction possible, time-wise, or product wise… or if there will even be success.  I am always in some sort of “school.”  It is a place I am familiar with, with experts, professionals, and peers.  We see each other often and we give ourselves projects, trying to get people interested in our ideas and creations.

So, now, I relax.  The good sunny weather is a Godsend.  It helps my mood, and it makes living the minutia of every day, something pleasant.  I play a little more in the sun.  I spend more time doing productive work, with more of a smile on my face. I feel this smile, as my heart is as light as the day is.  I remember to thank people more often, and I remember to appreciate the little things… the minutia. So, this is my official welcome to summer.   And, this year, I am looking toward a good year.  A year of feeling happy and successful.  Ola!