(Keeping the water theme in this long hot summer, this pic is Martha Cove on Port Phillip Bay)Yesterday - Ah! The mercury crept to 41 degrees by 4pm. I know, the midday sun in Melbourne is not equal to the crest of heat. We often get the real dose from mid afternoon till 4pm. But that's Melbourne for you! Doesn't like to follow the crowds! Has to be different, and that's why I am slowly growing to love her. Different is cool! But Tasmania will always remain my anam cara.
And I survived! I just immersed myself in waves of writing. It was an article for HubPages called Australia - A glimpse, a taste, a little music with the wine and the first memory. Yes! I know! A long title! But I like to be different! The article was mainly written as a peace offering - with the current tensions between Australian and Indian cricket fans. I wanted to put Australia in a softer and smiling light. It is not heavy, just cameo glimpses of Australia's "wardrobe" - her clothes, a little lingerie, her jewellery and even her shoes. So far, I am getting interest from different countries! That's good! But I want more! I want more shared joy of the spirit! The cricket fires will pass, but the spiritual fires linger! So it is the latter I am working on!
Hmm - and talking of spirit, the whole point of this post was to share some summer quotes! I was amazed just how few there are that really tune into the soul of summer. There are plenty on spring, winter and autumn, but not summer! So strange! Perhaps there's a poem waiting to be written - maybe my next project!
Summer Quotes
"The bigger the summer vacation, the harder the fall." ~ Anonymous
"A life without love is like a year without summer" ~ Swedish proverb
"The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful." ~ Susanne Churchod Necker
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." ~ Albert Camus
"It's a pure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do." ~ Walter Winchell
"Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer." ~Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s
"Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success" ~ Vanessa Redgrave
" A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing and the lawnmower is broken." ~ James Dent
And the last word on weather:
"Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella." ~Pepper Giardino
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." ~George Santayana
"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." ~Kin Hubbard
"Rainbows apologize for angry skies." ~Sylvia Voirol
Smiles and Light (but not too hot!)
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