Summer is almost done, and so I do something which I try to do at the end of the season: consider what parts of summer I love best to observe with my senses. The four main ones are very easy, but it there are more than four senses to summer in my humble opinion. Its a fun exercise that I think I stole from a writing class somewhere, but I believe anyone can do it and be satisfied to retrospect their own view of the season. It is very easy to look back with fond memories of an easier time at work with more ability for vacation, the making of new friends and going to new places. In any case, these are my senses of summer.
Sight: Shimmering waters, warm waves of air, the pristine pines of Lake Tahoe.
Smell: Ocean breeze, salty air, the smell of warm peanuts and stale beer. Simply walking along the shores of Avila I can get all these smells in an instant. I suppose the two latter smells also remind me of my childhood when we would go to USC games and I'd smell lots of peanuts and beer.
Touch: The feel of sand beneath bare feet, the warm touch of breeze in evening or a cool fog in morning.
Taste: Rootbeer Marble, a rare ice cream treat. I have seen this only sparsely, and had it even fewer times, but it is my all time favorite ice cream. Like liquid fudge, the rootbeer syrup is mixed with pure vanilla ice cream creating a rootbeer float taste. Combine this with a real rootbeer float, and you will be in seventh heaven.
Thought: The relishing of each moment and sense, each new experience.
Word: In words, Summer should be beauty, passion. It is fleeting like life itself. Scarce, it flees so quickly to hotter weather of so called "indian summer" which I hate. Summer should be the three months we please it.
Action: To go, to do, to see and sense all that we can. To enjoy
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