Editor’s Letter
Summer 2010 - Editor's Letter
by Sue Duffy
Weʼre all in need of summer.
We will ditch the early-morning scramble to gather Spider Man lunch bags and
homework, and spend that hour walking barefoot over a dewy blanket of fresh-mown
grass. Of course we will. In the afternoons, instead of heading back to the carpool lane,
weʼll ramble down park paths on no oneʼs schedule, plunge with abandon into cool
waters, pick strawberries, poke holes in the lids of firefly jars, read storybooks aloud
beneath shading oaks. And after a few weeks, weʼll wish the kids were back in school.
Still, summer is the promise of all things light and carefree. Isnʼt it? Should we
have filled this summer issue with craft projects to keep the kids busy, photos of
someoneʼs beach house, tips on packing light, and the latest advisories on sunscreens?
All good, but summer is more than that. Itʼs the tremulous pause after our prescribed
September-to-May lives when we anxiously await something different; weʼre not sure
what, but we want it to change us forever. The summer love, the summer job, the
summer vacation – didnʼt some of those alter the course of our lives? Shuttle us down
unexpected roads weʼre still traveling? I thought so.
