As Summer Slips Away

It's the saddest feeling of the year, the moment when I realize that summer is already half way over and it's slipping away from me again. I suppose in an eastern sense, it is not the end of summer but the beginning as summer leads to autumn-winter-spring and then summer again, but I can't help but wish it could last just a little longer. This summer has been a blur, and not the enjoyable kind in which we pass our days in a dreamy haze of lemonade and swim parties. The not-so-pleasant kind in which everyone is working, rushing, hectic. Sometimes I wish for another lockdown just so I could spend some time with my family. Ok, ok, I know the lockdowns weren't...