Guest Poster: RubyVioletRoses

This is my best friend, RubyVioletRoses! We decided to swap posts for a summer blog! See her blog at www.rubyvioletroses.blogspot.com.


Summer has always been an important time for me. I was born smack dab in the middle of July (the 15th for those of you that fail at math), right in the thick of everything. Summer has been the time of year where I examine myself, unearthing bits and pieces of myself that I never noticed or never knew existed. When we read Tuck Everlasting in sixth grade, something clicked in my head and I immediately loved it. My favorite part is at the very beginning, where time is first compared to a wheel. I'm not going to quote the entire paragraph, just the part that really struck home with me.


"...the first week of August is motionless and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank whit dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things that they are sure to be sorry for after."


As a Cancer, I'm emotional by nature, and this passage appeals to the wide range of emotions that you can experience in three short months. When I read that book for the first time, I wanted to feel those emotions, I wanted to do the things that the characters did.


Summer has always been a part of my life, a part of me, and always will be.