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My Summer Goals List


One of my favorite things to do is look forward to fun things, especially summer events! For the past six or seven years, my friends and I have made summer goals lists of things we want to do before summer ends. In the beginning, some of our's were: night swim in the ocean and swim out to the sand bar as much as possible.

My goals on this year's list are a little more safe, but just as fun ;)

1. Tube down the Ichetucknee River in Florida and swim in the cold springs
2. Buy rocking chairs for our front porch
3. Watch the fireworks on the 4th of July with my toes in the sand in Jax Beach
4. Read the whole collection of Harry Potter books (only one read so far)
5. Scan, print, frame, and hang collection of old photographs I've found of my family and my husband's in my office
6. Give my very difficult and stubborn pup a short summer hair cut
7. Write and finish a new poem
8. Make a cheesecake, for the very first time
9. Have a tea party, most likely with my little nieces
10. Rope swing into a lake or river
11. See Blink 182 live for the second time (first time was quite amazing :))

Snapped this one of Hoppus & Confetti a couple years ago

I've been packing for the past couple of days for a week trip to the beach. I can't wait to read some Mary Oliver while relaxing outside :) Here is a bit of her work that I love.

I look; morning to night I am never done looking.
  Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around as though with your arms open...

And now I will tell you the truth.
 Everything in the world
 comes.
 At least, closer.
 And, cordially.
 Like the nibbling, tinsel-eyed fish; the unlooping snake.
 Like goldfinches, little dolls of gold
 fluttering around the corner of the sky
 of God, the blue air.

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