To Life!

The weekend is upon us and I was thinking that it would be a good weekend to go to the beach, or perhaps an easy paddle up the river. Of course now it’s pouring rain, but that’s the weather pattern we’re in now. It’s summer, or close enough to it that we can officially call it the “rainy season”, otherwise known as “hurricane season”, which would make the “rainy season” moniker just a bit understated for the situation, but I digress and getting dangerously close to a run on sentence.

It’s suppose to be 90 degrees, with 68% humidity which means whatever we do it better involve water or air conditioning! But, then I remembered I had a visit with the dermatologist yesterday and she thought it best to take a few scrapings that left me with some minor, yet open wounds that probably shouldn’t be exposed to the “organic” water of the Gulf. Bummer! Nobody to blame but myself, and growing up in an age when sunscreen was as common as seatbelts. Do a little Google search and you can probably figure out how old I am. Now I use both. Good advice that I’m passing on.

In light of recent events in the news….Five Army soldiers killed in the flooding in Texas, with four more missing; Captain Jeff Kuss, Blue Angel pilot killed during practice in Tennessee. He was from my hometown of Durango; and more stories just like these from more places around the country and the world, what I’m doing this weekend is of little consequence. Yet, maybe it’s these tragedies, these losses that make my insignificant weekend all the more significant.

We all live until we don’t. We have no idea how long that will be. Perhaps, in spite of my melancholy spirit, it’s my duty, our duty to savor and revel in the life we are grateful to be living while we are living.