I miss summer

[AlienGirl]

Even if September hasn't started yet, I miss the height of summer: the sweltering long days that last until almost ten at night. I miss being asked twenty times a day if we can go to the pool. I miss going to the pool. I miss waking up with a kid throwing stuff at me. I miss days that felt so full nothing else could squeeze into them.

Tonight I was videoconferencing with my nine-year-old. It was already dark where he was. On the screen, he was a little blurred and pixillated, his movement a little jerky, and I realized it was just how he'd looked on the ultrasound screen, back when he was too close to touch...and now he is too far.

Tucker

[William769]

1. Well living in S.W. Florida, you can have them!

[AlienGirl]

2. Gets dark too early there... nt

[sendero]

3. Summer.....

.... has become, besides politics, the thing I hate most about Texas.

The heat in July and August, and often most of September, is intolerable.

I have to work outside sometimes and I'm literally raining sweat in 10 minutes time.

The falls in Texas are short but sweet, as are the springs. The winters mild and meek. The summer sucks ass and I can't wait until it is over :)

[flamingyouth]

4. You can already feel fall in the air here, I know.

Sorry you miss your little one. :hug:

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

5. re: I miss summer

As a PTP (Part Time Poppa) I empathize totally... I AM blessed that my body-kids live within a couple hours drive, (although 3 phone codes away!) but phone calls don't make up for not being able to tuck 'em in at night, not being able to stand physically between them and the desperate dangers of life.

Which is why I'm such a fanatical radical.

Looking at the world my kids are growing into, I can't feel a lot of hope... I was asked years ago, why I was involved in this one particular advocacy group and its actions. Everyone in the group was asked this at the start of "Activity Season", and as expected, they all had lovely answers straight from the activism handbook; you know, with every buzzword and PC phrase you've ever seen in every single manifesto ever written. As a returning old-hand, I was near the end of the circle. My answer made most of the newbies uncomfortable at first, since it didn't come out of the book: "I don't care much for 'isms' or theories... I'm not an ideological activist. I'm in this for one reason only: to make this world safe for my kids, whether of my flesh, or of my heart." It took a while before any but the few parents in the group "got it"...

AlienGirl's kids, though I've not yet met them in the flesh, are amongst those children of my heart... It is for them, and their "soul-sibs" that I do whatever it is I do in this world; for them that I stick my neck out in this war.

Even when they're in my arms, they're too far away, since this world is still threatening their very existence. And make no mistake, kids, this ain't no game, this is war. War against the idiots with their fingers on the triggers; war against the greedy, the venal, and the power-mad; war against the stupid, the credulous, the ovine masses yearning to bleat into their feedbags.

This is war against the eternal winter of the demonic soul.

I am a warrior, not an activist. Damn the ideologies, my babies are at risk. No games here... this is as real as it gets.

Deal with that.

[AlienGirl]

6. You have a powerful writing style yourself, y'know...

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

7. ...does this mean you're a fan???

[tjwmason]

9. Welcome to D.U.

:hi:

Your message clearly speaks from the heart - it's always good to have such folk around. :toast:

[NMMNG]

8. Me too

Already the nights are dipping into the low 60s and even the 50s. This speaks of Fall, which leads into Winter. I don't tolerate Winter well at all (unless you consider wearing 3-4 layers and still shivering tolerating it well).

I want to live in the desert.:cry: