The High Anxiety of High Summer
A friend of a friend once theorized that people’s lives get busy at the height of summer because we’re creatures of the earth. Whether we’re aware of it, we’re attuned to the passage of time from the summer solstice to the autumn equinox, when our ancestors would have been busy tending and harvesting summer crops, fighting off pests and weeds, and storing things away for winter. We no longer live a hunter/gatherer lifestyle, but I know very few people who have lazy grasshopper summers. Most people, myself included, are busy with real or metaphorical crops and weeds.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
always the odd one out, I am having the laziest stretch of summer right now. until the end of august when i go to visit georgia with dragoncon in the middle of the trip.