Summer is coming

Summer is coming. It is pending, like a credit card transaction. Reviewing its schedule and evaluating its creditentials before it formally declares itself as 'approved' and ready for use.

Today it gave us a preview, a reminder that its on its way. Blue skies, speckled clouds and bright, unabashed sun which defrosted the pavement and glared the eyes. I lay on the balcony in a singlet and shorts, willing it to tone my skin from winter white to that warm shade of summer honey. A shade I hadn't seen in months.

And just like the pavement, I felt myself slowly defrosting. The things that are able to hide in the cold and dark of the winter months, suddenly had no where to run. The sun had backed them into a corner and was melting them down. It was like crawling out of hibernation and being startled by how new, hopeful and familiar the world looks beneath the 29 degree heat.

A thin film of sand over every inch of skin. Sun-baking and salad sandwiches. Glasses of water dripping with perspiration and the gentle clink of cubes of ice. Cold showers. Bare feet. Bright dawns and brighter dusks.

Summer is coming. Summer is coming.