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It’s the heat that defines us this month. It greets
us at daybreak with its promise, but in an hour or so, it bears down
on our shoulders and makes us dream of shade and something cold to
drink.
The best thing about our hot season, however, are evenings when most
of the earth cools, and that breeze slides in off the mesa and
caresses our cheeks. Then it’s time to sit, and laugh, and tell
stories and just be with someone we love. Then is the culmination of
a day we can be proud of.
Inside each of us, we silently and privately applaud ourselves,
because the hot day tried us, but we did it. All day. We made it
through the heat today. Made it with our hands today. Made it
through to another precious June evening when we can sit on the
patio with something cold and someone sweet.
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So it gets hot in the daytime.
Okay. But just don’t forget to give us these evenings, these blessed
evenings when we can recall what cooler weather felt like.
Without these evenings, it would just be another hot summer day.
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
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