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Days 🌞 That Lasted Forever
Happy sunshine ’til you drop Hump 🐫 Day. We’re vibing about those long summer days of childhood when school was out and lawn darts were in…
🌞 Sunshine 😎
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees … I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
One of the great things about being a kid was that simple things were endlessly entertaining.
We could play Red Light, Green Light. We could play Mother May I.
There was wiffle ball, volleyball, badminton and even Jarts.
We had Slip & Slides. We had water pistol battles and water balloon tossing.
And the best part was that we had that ’til all hours of the evening.
Being out playing with my sister and the neighbor kids because 8 or 9pm looked like 8 or 9am was definitely a thing.
🎯 Living Dangerously 🦩
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It’s commonly held that GenXers are feral.
Fair point. We totally own it.
Handstands on skateboards?
Drinking from hoses?
Throwing weighted spikes with stabilization fins?
We did it with gusto and with glee.
Life was awesome enough on its own.
But then we had Jan Hammer with his evocative Miami Vice theme song, Harold Faltermeyer with his iconic Beverly Hills Cop theme and Phil Collins absolutely owning vibe vocals.
He didn’t say a goddamn thing, but he put so much emotion into saying nothing that it wound up meaning something.
Su-su-sudio? He could have taken a random greeting card, applied the Collins vibe and we all know it would have been a Top 40 hit because it was the fuckin’ 80s.
Reagan was sticking it to the Evil Empire and so was Luke Skywalker.
And Sonny Crockett talked his way into a gleaming white Ferrari Testarossa because you can’t close million-dollar deals with Rick Hunter’s precinct-issued jalopy!
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Laziness 😎 Finds 🧐 Respectability
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen
My fellow Pennsylvanian gets it.
Sitting around doing nothing because you feel like you’re in an open-air sauna is suspect.
Add a lounge chair and a glass of iced tea? Suddenly you’re as respectable as a Vanderbilt or Rockefeller.
Days that last darned near until tomorrow require properly provisioned leisure.
Chaise lounge. Check.
Cold beverage of your choice. Check.
Sunglasses. Check.
Umbrella. Optional, but check.
No point sitting around without the appropriate vibe as if you’re some lizard sunning on a rock.
Get those feet up, shorts on, tank-top or tee according to personal taste, but don’t forget the sunblock…
RoboCop 2 – Sunblock 5000 commercial HD
I’ve been doing some background maintenance on the story, but I have finished Chapter 39 of Book 3, The Sentinels: Heartstrings.
This brings my current word count for the series to 439,537, and I’m just getting started…
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for 🌞 real summer 🔥…