Still Hot

Well, there's a brief break today in the form of downpours. But the heat and humidity have been relentless and zaps my energy. Even the kids are tired of it. No one even wants to go to the beach, preferring to stay home in the air conditioning. Something's wrong when it's so hot you don't even want to be out during the only time of the year you can really be out.

Oh, I know, other people deal with extreme heat all the time, but if you're not used to it, it's a tough adjustment.

Still, it feels like the summer is flying by, and we're not really capturing all of it. Perhaps that's just my issue, and maybe everyone else is just living every moment fully. Or maybe it's just that I'm starting to see fall catalogues show up in the mail and back to school sales in the flyers, and it just adds to the sense that time is so fleeting. Why does our society always yearn for the next thing, as opposed to staying in the present? (I would add that a lot of parents are like that too, rushing the next milestone--boy/girl parties, for example, for preteens!--instead of enjoying the very brief time of childhood.)