Today it feels like 100 degrees. Today it will be light out at 8pm and today my dog will sprawl out on the stone floor of my kitchen beckoning for cooler days and more table scraps. Today is summer in all of it's bright, warm, and golden glory. Summer is great. I feel like a big plant soaking up the sun, arms stretched, iced-coffee in hand. I don't know if it's all the sweating or what not but I feel like my hair grows faster in the summer too and so do my nails. It's like life invigorates and buzzes on a whole other level. One of my favorite things to do, is absolutely nothing. No but really. I enjoy grabbing a large blanket, a good book, my puff ball of a dog, and an ice-chest and heading to a big green park or beach. I'll open up a fat group chat and annoy/invite all my vitamin D deficient amigos. And with my butt in the sand or grass life will take form all around me under the sun and I feel rooted. I feel like part of it all. full-on in the present moment as the gurus would say. I feel like what a gin and tonic looks like. Bubbly, slightly-sizzling and florally refreshing. NO BUT REALLY summer is the bomb. I play way more sport in the summer too. What starts as casually bringing a football to the beach turns into mortal combat on the high sands of the pacific. And if that doesn't majestically turn into bbq and beer-pong back at your place then you're doing it wrong. Speaking of majestic, summer is also a great time to find/re-invigorate love. Sweet, burnin, hunks of love juice dripping into the fiery pits of passion we all long for. Time seems to move a little slower during summer. And as our heartbeats flutter with whimsical energy we eat up every moment of these long days like a table of ripe fruit glistening in the morning light. So stay up late, collect grass stains on your socks and jeans and never mind the layer of sand in your bags and shoes. it's mother summer and nothing this good lasts forever.