from the publishers
It’s summertime and the living is easy.
Sit back on your favorite lawn chair or lie in the hammock with your eyes closed. Feel free to drift off, take a nap and let your cares waft away.
Better yet, find a green patch of grass, lie down and stare at the summer sky, trying to find animals or other shapes in the cloud formations that drift on by. If you really want to get crazy, find a slope or slight incline and roll your body downhill like a runaway barrel of root beer.
It’s summertime, after all, so you’re allowed to get a bit silly.
We at Minnesota Moments urge all of you to make a list of the top 10 things you want to do this summer and, by gosh, do them.
We’ve come up with a few ideas to get you started. Our list includes:
- Visit a lake and take a dip. If you can’t find a nearby lake to your liking, then find a swimming pool and take the plunge. There’s nothing quite as refreshing!
- Buy a box of popsicles and get messy. Take them out on the lawn and take your time eating one. No biting is allowed. Lick away and it’s OK if a bit of melting occurs.
- Watch a ball game outdoors, under the sun or under the lights. You can watch a beer-league softball game or an amateur baseball game or the St. Cloud River Bats. It doesn’t matter, just so it’s outdoors.
- Attend a Fourth of July event — a parade, a chicken dinner, a fireworks show. And while you do so, think about the meaning behind the day’s festivities.
- Get some grass stains on your pants or bare knees. And, take a moment to feel like you’re 8 again. And by all means, walk barefoot.
- Play a game of hide and seek or kick the can or red rover or any other game from your youth. If you can do this at about 9 p.m. and keep going until it gets too dark to see what you’re doing, all the better. Pretend you can stay out until your Mom or Dad calls you in.
- Lastly, try to capture a firefly in a glass jar and if that’s not possible, make a wish upon a star.
We at Minnesota Moments wish that this summer is one of the best you’ve ever had.
- Mike Nistler and Diane Wimmer