It’s chilly today, and cloudy too. It’s been a week of running here to there to there, and I hadn’t fully recovered from the food incident, so today I am feeling a little drained.
Looking at that sky, though, I’m not sorry stuff got done yesterday. I can hear the wind, too. It doesn’t look…pleasant.
Here we are, another Thursday careening toward the end of May, and I’ve already seen ads for “Back to School.”
Have the kids even left school yet?
It’s weird to me, how we have to be in a constant state of not now. They started pushing it with the holidays, everything advertising something two months away, but now they’re erasing summer entirely. Forget about stopping to smell the roses, it’s time to get pumpkin decor at 10% off.
It’s a never-ending sense of urgency, brought to us by the Worshippers of the Dollar, whether it manifests itself in sales that aren’t really, or headlines which have very little to do with the story itself, but they’ll take 12 paragraphs and 15 ads to let you figure that out.
It doesn’t breed happiness, it breeds anxiety, which they can then sell you something for in one way or another. The circle of cash register bells, which are largely symbolic here because I don’t even know if they have them anymore but you get it.
We don’t have to follow their calendar. We can stop, appreciate a late-May day, and let “Back to School” stay in its place, months and months away. We will feel like the summer is over after the 4th of July like normal people.
Anyway, that’s it for me today, I hope you have a lovely spring day.
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