Edited: July 11, 2016

Note: “This was written when I still worked a straight job.  Four years later, I am still on the quest of a carefree summer.  I’m updating this list in light of my ongoing Adventure !  List notations in parentheses are from 2016.”

I feel like I’ve worked through summer, which is fine except that I also feel like I’ve missed a lot of summer fun! No energy has been left over to do all those “summery” things. I admit to being a bit miffed about this upon realizing, but then I had a thought. I would make a list of things to do for the remaining 32 days!
I am a list person….always have been. I can create a list for practically anything, so I thought, why not write a list of things to do before summer is officially over and we begin looking for falling leaves and roasting chestnuts! I compiled a list and was going to post that, (so I could convince myself that I was actually blogging something), but then I remembered a book I read every summer (except this one), titled ”A Window on Provence.” It is the memoir of a woman who summers in the South of France with her parents for a month. Written in diary form the book follows the writer through her days in France.
Following in her footsteps (a very slight bit), I thought I would create my list and then share my summer experiences as this precious season wanes. Of course I will be looking for the bliss in all of these beautiful singular transcendent bits when we are absorbed by and enmeshed in the moment and experience becomes profound or profoundly silly!
I would love to share with others. So, if anyone comes up with some other good ideas, feel free to contribute with a comment or two! We can all enjoy these last [couple of months]few weeks of summer together in the bliss of new adventure!

The List

1. Walk miles and miles on the beautiful trail every chance I grab.
2. Make a Pasta Date! (Did that last night at Madiran!)
3. Weed the garden.(Smartly had others do that.  Now I can play…
4. Play in the backyard.
5. Walk on a beach.
6. Eat ice cream.
7. Turn yourself onto a new writer!
8. Buy a Christmas present.
9. Write a poem.
10. Blow some bubbles.
11. Try on your fall clothes no so that you can donate your extras in time for someone to actually wear them this year!(Actually got that done for summer this year!)
12. Swim.
13. Write a mystery.
14. Take a nap.
15. Write down some autumn goals.
16. Watch some butterflies.
17. Do something to bring you one step closer to your dream.
18. Sleep late.
19. Get one (only one) chore out of the way.
20. Plan a few days out in Montauk in the autumn.
21. Linger over a cup of tea.
22. Plant impatiens.
23. Get out and take a fun walk.
24. Have some fun summer Romantic dates.
25. Draw a picture of a flower…any flower.
26. Hang out with friends.
27. Watch the boats sail in and out of the harbor for a while.
28. Watch a really bad (for you) Christmas movie…so that in December you can sagely tell everyone else it is scant worth the time.
29. Wear a flowy skirt and write in a journal.
30. Wear your bathing suit, dammit!
31. Hike (as in walking somewhere fun).
32. Take lots of photos of it all!!!
Well, that is the list! My very own sojourn with summer. Let the bliss bloom!

© 2016, Carolyn Mora