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MIDSUMMER MEMORY, AUGUST REDUX
 
Friday, August 12, 2022
 
 
August has been entwined in so many things in my life.

Looking back, I have some vivid recollections.

And it was always midsummer.

I recall, as a kid, always wanting to get back to school around the end of July.

Someone asked me recently if that was missing the structure/organization of school or something else, and I’m wondering about that.

I’ve had ‘new job starts,’ and some new business starts – with August 1st as that mid-summer starting gun, and I’ve never thought much about what might be an optimal time for creating a venture or embarking on recalculated journey/path. So I started when I started. It happened most often that those events were in August – not because August was ideal, but because that was when I wanted the change or the start. Those are impulses and sometimes wrong-headed ones I understand better now.

Summers, and middle of summers, are short and hot – I love it, and I wish they were longer in the same way I wish for weeks lasting nine days.

Then I could have seven days to get everything I want to be done, with two days of rest to spare!

The challenge now is to do less work but do it better and more thoroughly, and if I’m lucky, I’ll reduce my wish to a yearning for the eight-day week.

This August, these changes feel like a job change. It’s not the job or location that’s changing. The changes are within me because it’s a review, rethink, and refocus of so much – and so far, it feels energizing and energy-depleting all at the same time. Still, I have strong feelings about some new initiatives (primarily ones that have been on the back burner far too long), and every decision and action feels like a solid step along the path called ‘the right direction for me’ …


 


 
 

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