{"id":1162,"date":"2011-07-15T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2011-07-15T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:05:47","slug":"how-to-capture-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2011\/07\/15\/how-to-capture-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Capture Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>SPICE:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s summer.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 You know, it\u2019s hard for me to really feel it.\u00a0 Monday through Friday, my day is spent indoors, in air-conditioning and florescent lighting.\u00a0 I arrive to the office before it\u2019s very warm and I leave with only a few precious waking hours left.\u00a0 Those few hours are filled with a commute, preparation and eating of dinner, maybe a couple of errands\u2026so where is my summer?\u00a0 Do you have this same feeling, Sugar?<\/p>\n

SUGAR:<\/strong>\u00a0 I sure do!\u00a0 I try to live in the moment and be as fully aware<\/span><\/strong> as possible but that lasts about 2 nano seconds. So how can we make summer last or at least enjoy the day we have today?<\/p>\n

SPICE:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019ve got it right.\u00a0 It is<\/span><\/em><\/strong> the moments that we capture that create our summer. It\u2019s not like being a child anymore, where it\u2019s an \u201call consuming\u201d thing.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to find it yourself as an adult. So, I realized that the best way to feel your summer is to use all your senses.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go through them, ok?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first way is through the SOUNDS <\/strong>of summer.\u00a0 I love having all the windows open in my house.\u00a0 I hear the birds early in the morning, a lawnmower; someone\u2019s dog barking\u2026it\u2019s nice.\u00a0 And at night, I hear the coyote\u2019s! Even the sound of the fan I have running in my kitchen is wonderful.\u00a0 It was my Grandmothers and she kept it in her kitchen. You know the kind?\u00a0 Those old metal ones that have the completely open cages for the blades?\u00a0 It has a hum sound that takes me back to summer days spent on their dairy farm in Alabama.<\/p>\n

The next way is through the TASTES <\/strong>of summer. Summer tastes to me are a cold watermelon, some <\/a>lemonade or iced tea, popsicles, burgers and hotdogs cooked on the grill and roasted marshmallows over a campfire. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To capture the tastes of summer, think back to summer as a kid and remember what you ate! Maybe, go get ice cream from the local stand after dinner.\u00a0 Then eat it on the picnic benches they have.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another way is through the SMELLS<\/strong> of summer. Summer smells for me include freshly cut grass and the way the world smells after it rains and sunscreen.\u00a0 I like to drive home with my car windows down so I can smell outside.\u00a0 So often our lives are closed up: \u00a0Our houses, our cars, our buildings.\u00a0 It\u2019s nice to smell the outside.\u00a0 Even those annoying smells like a skunk. Think hard, I bet you can remember the smells of a childhood summer!<\/p>\n

Next is through the SIGHTS<\/strong>. Some of the sights of summer may be a sprinkler spray creating a mini rainbow, sundresses and flip flops and carnival lights.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Or daylilies blooming on the side of the road and hanging flower baskets.\u00a0 Sit on your porch or front steps \u2013 look around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lastly, bring back the FEELING<\/strong> of summertime. How?\u00a0 Sweat.\u00a0 This comes back to what I was saying about air-conditioning. \u00a0Forty hours per week of my summertime is spent in artificial temperature.\u00a0 How sad is that?\u00a0 I want to feel that heat.\u00a0 I want to experience it.\u00a0 Otherwise, my summer is 75 degrees.\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 So, drive with your windows down.\u00a0 Feel the air.\u00a0 Stick your arm out and make air roller coasters with it.\u00a0 Sleep with the windows open, a fan on and a sheet only.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Capture your summer with the sights, sounds, tastes, smell and feeling. Share your experiences with others.\u00a0 Help them capture their summer, too.\u00a0 It goes by way too fast.\u00a0 In the words of Ferris Bueller:\u00a0 If you don\u2019t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tell us \u2013 how do you capture your summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SPICE:\u00a0 It\u2019s summer.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 You know, it\u2019s hard for me to really feel it.\u00a0 Monday through Friday, my day is spent indoors, in air-conditioning and florescent lighting.\u00a0 I arrive to the office before it\u2019s very warm and I leave with only a few precious waking hours left.\u00a0 Those few hours are filled with a commute, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-inspiration","category-general-health-care-educational-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-iK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}