06/07/2026
🌤 Sunday Thoughts
Maine waits a long time for summer. Then, somehow, it disappears in a heartbeat.
Maybe that's not because summer is so short. Maybe it's because life moves so fast.
Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the season, always seems like it takes forever to arrive. Then, somehow, you blink and Memorial Day has turned into the Fourth of July. Blink again, and you're talking about the fair, back-to-school shopping, and wondering where the summer went.
We plan the vacation and spend half of it checking email. We show up to the cookout and mentally rewrite our to-do list. We sit by the lake and think about Monday. Summer becomes something that happens in the background while we're focused on everything else.
Being present is a choice you have to keep making. It doesn't happen because you took the day off. It happens because you decided, in that moment, that this moment deserves your full attention.
So here's our advice:
Work hard. Take the vacation. Go to the cookout. Watch the game. Sit by the lake. Mow the lawn. Make memories. Relax... and enjoy it.
When you're at work, do good work. When you're with your family, put the phone down. When a friend asks if you want to grab ice cream, take a boat ride, or sit around a campfire, don't let your to-do list always win.
The emails will still be there Monday. The grass will need mowing again. But the long evenings, the sound of the loons, the fireflies, the smell of a backyard barbecue, and the kid asking you to throw one more ball... those won't wait.
Don't let summer become something you meant to enjoy.
Here's to a great summer.
See you Monday. 😊
