High on Happiness

Posts Tagged ‘Leisure’

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The time of billowing clouds has come, when the clover is in blossom and the sweet grass is high.

Beneath the noon sun, the fragrances of summer rise from the earth in a rich perfume and children play in the orchard.

Now, in these long days, let us take some time for leisure.  The planting is done; the earth is growing her harvest.

Let us take some time to be merry and to savor these hours, bright with the goodness of life.  Let’s sit on the porch swing and drink lemonade and hold each other’s hands as if we were young lovers.

Tell me your stories, and I’ll pretend they’re new while I listen, still dazzled by your beauty.

These are the clover days, full or bounty, when the earth is sweet and each moment reeks with good fortune and joy.

“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~Henry James

Oh, the leisure of it!  And the loveliness!  At long last, summer is here.

“Summer is the time,” said Ada Huxtable, “when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.”

If I could wish a wish for you, it would be that you do indeed become absolutely intoxicated with the belief that all is right with world—and never recover from the notion.

Happy Summer, my friends.  May it live forever in your hearts.

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