Oh my God, it is still summer right? I will answer my own question. Yes it is and with a vengeance! I live for the summer and summer in New York is like a continuous ice-cream treat. I’ve been doing a great deal this summer.  A lot of change and with change comes new thoughts, ideas, plans, ifs, whys and when.

 I feel like I have been every where this summer and I still have other destinations and places to be.  Thank God there’s still a lot of summer left. Yes I said it, a Lot More Summer Left! I will scream it from the top of the Empire State Building. I will shout it from downtown Wall Street. I will sky write it over Central Park. That rant was for those people who like to claim that Labor Day ends the summer. Some of you even call it the un-official end of summer –   like that  makes it easier to deal with. I got news for those people,  summer does not end until the fat lady sings and that fat lady doing the singing is called the change of season. Funny, I thought that every body knew that.

 I know that the change of seasons are taught in school, elementary school I believe. At least that’s where I learned about it. The calendar reads the end of summer is on September 21. Now if we are lucky we get what’s called Indian Summer, which is a period of sunny, warm weather in Autumn typically in October and early November when all the leaves on the trees have turned and oh how beautiful that is.

 Now I know it sounds like I am pushing here and trying to stretch out the summer for as long as possible, but why not, lord knows that the winter goes on forever no matter what the calendar says. Now I have nothing against the winter, but the summer is the life for me. So for those of you who are  thinking of packing it in for the quote “Un-official end of summer – knock it off . There are still those of us who are still trying to enjoy it . Don’t snow on my summer.

 James Pearson