Remember, back in the middle of January, when you were scraping the ice off the windshield of your car and that Arctic blast thought you were a wind tunnel? Summer sure sounded pretty great then, didn’t it? And now, with the beginning of this month, it’s the Labor Day holiday, the traditional end of the summer vacation period. Over the past three months, you’ve sweated buckets, peeled off a couple of pounds of fried, sunburned skin, strained muscles you didn’t know existed, had heart arrhythmias induced by your air conditioning bill, gained more than twice the weight of the skin you flaked off, had a vacation that lasted all too short of a period of time, and you’re ready for . . . . . a break from summer?
September is the start of a 9 month launch pad aimed at shooting us off into . . . next summer. It’s well disguised in that role, at first taking us farther and farther away from the past summer until it is so far away we forget how uncomfortable, tired, cranky, and ready for it to be over that we were just a short time earlier. Fortunately, we have almanacs to remind us (writer bows).
You really don’t want next summer. You’ll be another year older and you’ll feel just like you feel right now, at best. What you want is to enjoy each day as it comes for what it is and then to take it in to the fullest. But we both know you’re about as likely to do that as you are to complete your new year’s resolutions, which now have been ignored for 8 months since you “postponed” them. Resolutions have a statute of limitations, though, that removes all legal, civic, and moral obligations for completing them upon passing the 6 month mark, so NOBODY restarts them at this point of the year.
September is quite an upbeat month starting on the 1st with National Acne Positivity Day, followed closely by National Hug Your Boss Day (Sept. 17), and closing with National Love People Day (Sept. 30).
September is also, arguably, the most musical month. It even has its own song – “See You in September,” written, recorded, and made popular in the span of about a week in 1959. Dozens of versions of the song have been recorded, from Debbie Boone to The Happenings.
September is also the month of the the fall season change. Although summer was over in most people’s minds with the three day Labor day weekend, it actually doesn’t end until the equinox, which occurs this year on September 22. ♬ See you in October ♬
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