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In his ode to summer, \u201cDandelion Wine,\u201d Ray Bradbury identifies June, July and August as summer.\u00a0 And as opposed to the calendar and the astronomical basis for the definition of summer that it measures, every school boy of my generation knew it to be these same months.\u00a0 And this year especially, the beginning of June is every bit as much summer as the more legitimate last week.\u00a0 Today will be close to ninety degrees.\u00a0 Nothing defines summer more than that Fahrenheit measure.\u00a0 Ninety degrees Fahrenheit is summer.<\/p>\n

And so, the laziness that is the glory of summer already holds me in thrall.\u00a0 I have a laundry list of yard chores and yet I spend my time walking around the yard looking at flowers and bugs and listening to the birds quarrel over their nest sites and the fattest grubs.\u00a0 Every once in a while, I\u2019ll pull a weed but despite Camera Girl\u2019s hectoring, I rarely carry the plucked plant to the mulch pile. \u00a0I usually just drop it where I found it.\u00a0 Just too lazy to make the effort.\u00a0 And that is the beauty of summer; giving in to the pleasure of lazy heat.\u00a0 Every dog, every lizard knows the ecstasy of laying in the hot sun.\u00a0 The heat bakes into your bones and the oven air scorches your lungs.\u00a0 It\u2019s remarkable.\u00a0 And that is why the seashore is so perfect a summer setting.\u00a0 It allows you to get that feeling over and over again.\u00a0 You take the heat until it becomes unbearable, then a plunge into the cold water quenches the heat and you\u2019re ready to do the whole thing over again.\u00a0 The therapeutic effects of a week or two by the sea can sometimes offset a whole year of office drudgery and even a long New England winter\u2019s worth of cold.<\/p>\n

And while I\u2019m at play in the fields of the Lord I can forget for a few moments all of the absurd nonsense that infects the present-day world around me.\u00a0 I can forget the culture war and the collapse of western civilization and even the internet drudgery that I have embraced.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to read what the pundits are saying and what the fake news is trumpeting.\u00a0 I can forget about war drones following their GPS paths to destruction and watch their natural world analog as a dragonfly patrols the perimeter of the yard, as mechanical and precise as the machine but much more lyrical.<\/p>\n

Later on, today I\u2019ll get around to reading the awful news and the boring opinions of the pundits.\u00a0 And I will have to be out and about on my list of chores.\u00a0 But it was nice to be up and around early this morning and see the fields while it was still cool and moist.\u00a0 All that moisture will be sucked up into the blast furnace of noon and I will take another walk to experience that too.\u00a0 The grasshoppers and the bees will be about their chores and I\u2019ll look for a good photo or two (or two hundred) and I\u2019ll even knock an item or two from the chore list.\u00a0 But summer\u2019s begun and the living is easy.\u00a0 Enjoy it if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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