Summer is dying slowly. Its a sad tragic truth that summers end. Summers were once a time of discovery, a time freedom was not an expression but a lifestyle, a time when adventure was born. The older I get the farther those summers seem from me. In response to that gap I have created a list of things that make for a summer to great. These are things that I have done, wanted to do and will endeavor to do every summer for the rest of my life. Please comment on what should be added to the list or tell of experiences doing some of the items on the list.
-Go to a baseball game, eat a hot dog (drink a beer if you're so inclined).
-Drink a Coke from a glass bottle.
-Climb a mountain.
-Go to an outdoor concert.
-Picnic. Take good cheese, crusty bread and olives (and wine, if you're so inclined).
-Go to a beach, swim or surf. Build a sand castle
-Ride a roller coaster
-Go to a festival, carnival, fair or farmer's market.
-Eat Cotton Candy.
-Climb a tree.
-Drink a Slurpee(please make it a real Slurpee, not its pathetic half brother Icee)
-Barbecue, listen to Sublime, Bob Marley, The Beach Boys, Hepcat and The Buena Vista Social Club.
- See at least one person you have not seen in over a year.
-Write something. Put pen to paper and write in long hand; a short story, a poem, a letter just write something not on a computer.
-Walk barefoot on grass.
-Fall in love with a new band.
-Watch a movie that was made before you were born, preferably before your parents were born.
-Ride a horse.
-Swim at night.
-Play a team sport just for fun, softball is preferable.
-Go to a movie, try for a midnight showing.
-Compete in a race.
-See a play.
-Cross something off of your bucket list.
-Add something to your bucket list.
-Road trip.
-Camp.
-Eat at a new restaurant, and try something you have never had before.
-Watch fireworks.
-Do something stupid with your best friend.
-Go to a parade.
-Catch a bug...let it go.
-Go to a snow shack for a Tiger's blood snow cone. Its different than a Slurpee.
-Walk barefoot on grass.
-Go fishing.
-Read something just for fun, something non-fiction, a poem (out loud) and a literary classic.
-Make your own ice cream or sorbet.
-Make a new friend.
-Visit an National Park, Monument or Historic Site.
-Visit a museum.
-Roller skate.
-Build something, anything just make it your own.
-Watch a sunrise and set.
-Ride a bike.
-Remember what its like to be a child.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Summer 2010
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go skinny dipping. wear a swimsuit under everything. have saturday afternoons blocked out for laying out, and refuse to do anything else unless it's a matinee. sno shack, sno shack, sno shack. sleep on rafts at the lake all day (with a beer, if you're so inclined). cliff dive until your suit falls off. then dive once more, to see if it hurts. watch a movie on the roof. break into waterslides at night.
Oh gosh- I could never pull an all nighter again as long as I live. Because then I would die.
Also-
fresh veggie/fruit stands on the side of the road.
Fireflies are a must around here.
Sadly there are no snow cones shacks! How is this even possible? Nebraska is boring.
I suddenly feel kind of old and boring after reading your list! Although I was surprised I had done quite a few things from it. Great list!
Great list! I terribly miss "night swimming" back in the day. I just might print off this list, save it, and use it every summer with my kids. It's bound to create great memories instead of too much television. And yeah, no way to the pulling an all-nighter.
I agree with and love your list! I especially love the "outdoor" concert, and if possible, make it a musical legend, Sir Paul is a pretty good example of one such legend!
If you can't pull an all-nighter, you either have kids and/or are to OLD! I try to pull at least one all-nighter once or twice a year if not more, just to remind myself what it used to be like. It's not as easy as it used to be, but that's part of the fun of it!
Thanks for the great list Colt. Once again, one of my favorite authors I wish would write a book already! Get on it so I can buy a copy and make you sign it! I love your writing style and would, and do, read almost anything you write.
Add organic, raw honey to that bread, topped with raw milk cheese and a slice of hard salami. Olives eaten excessively with fingers. Perfect meal.
You may not be pulling all nighters when you have kids, but you'll get to run through sprinklers, which is pretty awesome.
Since we have a beach now (albeit, man-made)spending a day there, doing absolutely nothing but talking, not talking, playing in the sand, and getting your feet wet has been added to our list.
Catch fireflies...
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