It's in the air

I can hear it in the evenings. Perhaps it is due to the early summer that I have been feeling its coming for a few weeks now. My internal clock says that it should already be here but natures doesn't agree. You know what I am talking about. Fall. The peepers are calling it in the evenings and there is something crisp at the end of the each early morning breeze.
I stood in my closet this morning and stared at my favorite jeans and a sweater lying on the shelf. Oh, wouldn't that be nice! I am such a jeans and sweater girl! Just a few more weeks I told myself. A few more weeks of avoiding the thermometer reading in the van that inevitably reads 90+ degrees. Blah! "This is so old!" I feel like screaming. I am ready for the cool mornings when I can open the windows in the kitchen. I am ready to put away the beach towels and swimsuits. I want the transition that tells me life is about the wind down in the gardens. I NEED the change over to earlier sunsets and calmer evenings. Now this is not to say that with the Fall life gets calmer. Just the opposite. Dance, soccer, scouts, school.......  No. not calmer on the schedule, but calmer in terms of nature and the speed of the day. Summer screams, Go, go go!"  Fall seems to whisper, "Stop and look around at my wonder."
I often wonder how hard it must be to live in a place that lacks seasonal change. I don't know if I could adjust to the lack of natural rhythm. Warm and sunny all the time sounds great, but I feel like it would be similar to a scenic treadmill. I need Fall and it will be here soon, thankfully!

And so it begins....

It seems that every time I get in the shower I begin to pen blog posts about this and that in my head. I feel like there could be a writer stuck somewhere deep down inside of me. It makes no sense at all because if you asked me what I hate to do the most, the answer would likely be writing, followed by putting laundry away. I always say IF I had the time I would try to get myself to coordinate my thoughts, but we know how chaotic life is most of the time. That leads me to call this blog, Everything but the Calm, well...because that's what my life is.
Some topics will outrage, some will encourage, some will get you thinking, and some might make you want to cheer me on. In all cases they are just simply things I think, believe, or muse about.