The end of summer seems to be just around the bend. Southern Arizona is paradise during the fall and winter months. People from all over the world find their way to the mild lovely weather here, from October to early May...
Still, I want to sop-up the heat filled days before they are gone. Another season, another time, and before we know it Summer 2009 will be but a mere memory.
So if its too hot, it's no big deal. Too humid? No problem. A moment in time is fleeting. I want to embrace the moment, hug it tight, absorbing the scent, the feeling. Much like you do a loved one, right before they board a plane, not to be seen for a long long time...
I find myself doing just that, in the Gypsy Garden...
The heat feels so good today. Again, it all comes back to perception doesn't it? I feel in love with summer. Sweltering days, laden with coconut oil, and pina coladas. Dripping in peaches and berries, snuggly fit in a handmade clay bowl...
My fruit gets warm and the flavors become more intense. I get these thoughts, like, what if I was never able to eat a peach again? I close my eyes as I eat my fruit. I am grateful.
On my beloved blanket made of antique saris, saris frantically trying to keep their fibers together, I dream...
I spent most of the weekend in town, doing grown-up duties (yucky yuck). I long for moments such as these, at the country house. I am ever grateful for this virtual space that holds memories recorded and suspended in time...
Mmmmmm, life can be so good. It really can...
As I romanticize my moment with summer, I hear footsteps crunching through the dirt and leaves. It's time to share my moment. I hand my bowl to a certain someone. He always closes his eyes when he chews. He always feels the moment (especially the ones where I annoy him ;).
And, I always share whatever I have with him. Even if its the best rice krispy treat in the world. I make it seem so simple to him, my sharing. But it is an extremely kind gesture from the heart, for a girl who would like to be greedy with her berries...
It's time for the man-boy to enjoy the Gypsy Garden, and all the fluttering moments of summer...
I turn on the little hand held radio, NPR, and I pass the Gypsy Garden on to him...
I walk away smiling, knowing that someone else is fully enjoying summer, and summer is getting a wholelottalove...
(As I type I sing the words, a whole lotta love, out loud. And, I get a whole story about the song and its history from the man-boy musician storyteller)
♥, V
Two Important notes before I go -
1) We have a Mad Tea Party 2009 Page! When you click on the Mad Tea Party 2009 flyer, located in the left hand sidebar on my blog, it takes you to the new Mad Tea Party 2009 page. Thank you so much for your help sending me your links to your actual party (there are about 60+ there now). I still need 200+ links to have everyone on the list.
Please keep sending me your direct links to your Mad Tea Party if you hosted one. Details about that request located here.
2) Spellbindingly mysterious details about the Halloween Soiree 2009 will be announced this week ;) Bwwwwwwwahahahhaahaaaaaaaaa!!
See you soooooooon!! ;)
