How did you spend summer days as a kid? ☀️

Jun 11, 2022 12:01 pm

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Not to be controversial, but summer is the best season of the year.

A lot of people like autumn for the pumpkin spice lattes, scarves, and turning leaves. I won't lie. Those are good things.

However, the mark of a good season is the produce associated with it. Winter has pomegranates, the best fruit in the entire universe. Spring has avocados, strawberries, and the best greens. Summer is all about those watermelons and tomatoes.

And autumn? What does autumn have?

Squash.

I mean, it also has eggplant and potatoes, which are great. But every grocery store is overrun with squash. Every food blogger is sharing boring squash recipes. I know squash is relatively easy to grow and hearty and healthy.

But it sucks. No matter the variety. It's always a disappointment. Just like its no good cousin, zucchini.

(I apologize if this veggie discourse offends you. But if squash is your favorite vegetable, can I recommend that you try LITERALLY ANY OTHER VEGETABLE? I'm sure you'll see what I mean.)

Anyway, summer is great for other reasons besides watermelon and tomatoes.

Even though I'm definitely not a kid in school anymore, I always think about the summer as time off. I think about long days spent languishing under a ceiling fan while reading a book or trips to the pool or staying up super late and watching fireflies twinkle across the lawn.

This summer, I'm actively trying to make some time to do these things. (I mean, I already do the reading one.) As the pandemic trundles along, I've taken it upon myself to make as much magic in my day as possible. I want the days to stretch out as long as they did when I was a kid. I want to plumb the depths of boredom the way I could when I didn't have social media and 8 billion streaming services only to stumble upon a really cool thing and suddenly find a new hyperfixation that becomes my entire personality for a while. I want to set up a slip and slide in the yard!

(Don't tell my husband about that last one. He will say no and talk about how many adults injure their spinal cords every year on slip and slides. He's probably right, and it's probably a terrible idea to set up a slip and slide, but also, that is not a very magical way to spend the summer, dammit.)

All this is to say as we approach the summer solstice, I think we all need to make a magical summer to do list. And make no mistake--that magic gets to be as mundane as it needs to be.

Sleeping in, calling in sick to work just to chill at home, re-reading a book you loved as a kid, running through a lawn sprinkler, sipping a soda at a baseball game, and slathering your body in coconut-scented sunscreen--all decidedly magical.

Next week, I'll bring you some summer time spell ingredients in your Saturday Morning Donuts, along with how you can create some magic in really fun and simple ways.

So make sure you keep an eye out for that on the 18th. And if you know anyone who needs some summer magic, forward them this newsletter so they can subscribe right here.