Summer Doings
Summer Doings
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It’s wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” These are the words of our forefather Thomas Jefferson, and we would do well to do remember them these coming summer months.
Summer is not so very far away, you know; and those of us yet in school eagerly anticipate more free hours in which to do “everything we’ve been wanting to do.” The problem, however, is that—once we have the time to do them—we forget what they are. (Until August, that is!) It may be helpful, then, to plan now a list of specific goals and also a list of “things to do” which are at once pleasant and productive. There is nothing like them to conquer summertime ennui!
Ask yourself these questions as you compile your lists: Do you want to...
learn an new language?
read a new book?
play an instrument?
memorize more Scripture?
set more time aside for prayer?
experiment with new recipes?
tend a garden?
learn to preserve some of summer’s bounty?
clean and organize your “corner?”
start or complete a handiwork project?
work on items for the autumn bazaars?
work on items for your hope chest?
take long walks or bicycle rides “at home or abroad?”
learn to play croquet, badminton, tennis, archery?
learn and new folk dance or song? or
host a home-dance?
take up a new study?
read aloud to siblings or “little friends?”
take a “literary” European tour?
write for a small publication?
earn money towards some long-desired item?
raise chickens or other small livestock?
invite friends to lunch or tea?
host a class of little children?
There are countless other activities of which you have doubtlessly thought—this is only a beginning! What do you hope to accomplish this summer?
May you have a rich and productive summer upon which you can later look back with great satisfaction and fond remembrances!
Painting: Busy Idleness. Isaac Snowman.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008