It's SUMMER!
© Photo by Braeden Petruk

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Our Daily Challenge - "Warm"
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Sometimes us "old people" are a bit too old-fashioned and rigid for my liking -- the lack of rigidity in children, and their willingness to let themselves be guided completely by curiosity and intuition is one of my favourite qualities to observe in them.
Rather than following a pesky and wildly inaccurate calendar (and trying to to apply a discreet December or June Summer Solstice to to one's location on a continuous grid of coordinates), children just know:
When they can sense the relief and increasingly happy aura around them, summer has begun. When they are free to do whatever they want, unimpeded by the weather or schedules, summer has begun. When some mysterious, uncontrollable force within them shoves them out the door and into the nearest freezing cold pool of water, THAT is when summer has begun.
They just know! They have no old-fashioned date systems, calculations based on axial tilts, or other technicalities to hold them back -- they let their intuition guide them, and it serves them well. I love it! :D

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