summer of childhood

this summer i am reverting back to childhood.

the way delia looks in this photo is ideal. dirty, hot, sweaty, hair everywhere. sunburned. i want it all. i love that feeling of summer. of feeling hot and grimy and like you've been playing in the dirt.

i want to play outside all day and sit on the porch at dusk with a drink and some friends, and i want to feel alive.

do you remember when you were a child and you walked barefoot everywhere? and when you walked down the street you intentionally tried to walk on rubber strips of fixed road? maybe that was just me, but i remembered that today as i walked home barefoot.

this photo is my vision and inspiration for summer.

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Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

-G.K. Chesterton