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Summer Vacation...


Kawika

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As promised I said I would share a few of my older blogs while I'm on my annual summer sabbatical ... it was a heart rending trying to decide so I settled on sharing some of the summer vacation entires...

 

 

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Summer has always been my favorite season... even though it's the shortest and time seems to fly from Memorial Day to Labor Day... I love it because it has the longest days that many have been filled with crystalline water under a cerulean sky punctuated with  searing white light and fragranced with salt and tanning oil. The sounds of ice cubes clinking in glasses or gushing in an ice chest or skimming around in an ice cream maker mixed with the melody played by gulls over head and underscored by crickets under porches...the tastes of berries picked fresh and the feel of browning skin under the sun and the reflections of white sand on sunglasses and perfect sunsets and hot starry nights and the smiles that light the darkness because they always promised  another  perfect summer day ahead... these have been and always will be my sights, sounds, tastes and feelings of summer.
 
I have some precious images of past summers seared into my memories forever and look forward each year of adding a new chapter to the mementos in my mental scrapbook.
 
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Every year I set sail to summer with new ideas to work out and plans to organize in my my mind to set in motion come fall... this year I'm going to be taking into serious consideration who is with me and who is against me and the others who are walking the middle line because they don't have the courage or strength to pick either side... I'm letting go of the past but with that I'm letting go of people and ideas that don't bring peace and happiness to my life anymore... but mostly I'm letting go of other peoples opinions that at this point in my life are a dime a dozen. I learned something important since last summer... I don't need anyones validation to be happy and successful... My partner in crime and I are on the crest of making some important changes and directions we want to take for the rest of our lives together...a lot of things and decisions were made for us late last year and it's taken up until now for these things to direct the compass inside me to have the courage to change directions. 
 
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The sea is and always will be part of my inspiration and one of the things that touches my soul to the core... because something I can touch with my toes spans the entire planet and brims with life and promise...the ocean as it withdraws from one beach at sunset and takes some of it's  energy to distant shores around the world and leaves some of it with me and takes some of my molecules with it on it's long journey until it ultimately  returns to me. 
 
One of the other important lessons I've learned since last winter is that we need to become  different people with every new chapter of our life...my plan for this year to find my place in the sun with the boys and girls of summer and where it can all lead for all of us from here to there and beyond.
 
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Have fun... enjoy your time in the sun and sand or wherever the season takes you... See you in September!
 
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Oh and one more thing... I got a pretty angry e-mail from a reader about my segment on Yearbooks a few weeks ago...I really want to clarify something... if you are lucky enough to be born someplace and feel like you belong there and are happy and want to spend the rest of your life there... you are really lucky because I was not one of those people and had to go out and find my place ( a couple of times).. in fact in many ways some of us have to keep looking because... well that's the way life works sometimes... Just an FYI... I have been to and spent a considerable amount of time in Lincoln Nebraska for one reason or another and it's a perfectly wonderful place.. it just was not a place that I felt really welcome or wanted to live and pursue a life and career... mostly because there are tornadoes and when I was visiting there was no I Magnin and maybe most importantly Pan Am did not service that city... and finally maybe I was wrong about not wanting to go back to reunions... because I have spent a few hours perusing  the Facebook pages of some reunions I did not attend... they did look fun and I did enjoy catching up with a few people even if it was on a page reading about it... so maybe after all these years perhaps we do have some common ground and have something to talk about... OK are we good?
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Tomster

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Thanks, @Kawika. I had already picked up on some of my thoughts about your entry. About some other things I had to go deeper into myself. 

I'm not sure I'm one of the boys of summer. Somehow, every season has had its charm so far. But yes, summer was the most delightful season. You talk about upcoming changes in your life, about the fact that you needed time to align your compass. As you know, I have brought about changes into my life, additional changes have happened. The desire to bring about these changes had to grow for almost two years. A few effects of the change are rather odd. I used to celebrate my birthday shortly after the beginning of summer, now shortly after the beginning of winter. July creates the image of summer in me, while January evokes the image of frost and snow in me. These are tiny things, but they also show that not even the seasons should be taken for granted. 

You said "I don't need anyones validation to be happy and successful..." and I agree with you on this. We also have nothing to be ashamed of when we are happy and successful. (It's way easier said than done.) 

I had not yet so consciously perceived your depiction of how the sea connects everything and everyone. But yes, even the water of a little creek that has its spring somewhere in the mountains ends in the ocean and returns in the course of its journey. As you know, we live directly by the sea. Even if a distant island is visible, the unobstructed view of the endless horizon gives the feeling of freedom while the sound of the waves creates an inner peace. I feel more a part of nature than I have ever felt before. 

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In any case I wish you and your partner all the best for the new chapter(s). May fortune and happiness be your constant companions. 

T. 

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Kawika

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Tom thank you for reading and adding your insights... one of the things I think I should clarify... when I mention "The Boys Of Summer" I'm not really referencing the Don Henley song of the same name... or what American's often refer to as baseball players... but  I was a lifeguard when I was younger and the manager of the pool I worked at refereed to us as "The Boys Of Summer" we were a tight knit group who only saw each other from the end of  May until the end of August... but we created wonderful lifelong memories... and also it was a time when the people who came to Hawaii every year from the mainland and elsewhere for the summer for vacation and  we picked up the threads of friendship right where we left off every year!

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Thanks for clarifying, Kawika. With that in mind, of course, I'm not a boy of summer. 

I have to admit that neither title nor artist of "The Boys of Summer" was familiar to me, although I have heard the song dozens of times. It is, as I found out, a nice coincidence that the song was released in the year I was born.  

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