Late Summer Sounds at Home

There are so many good things about the waning days of summer and the summer break from school. Number one? You are still AT home at a little before nine in the morning.

Others? Sound of coffee in the percolator brewing, muffled electric guitar playing from the neighbors downstairs (good in that it’s muffled… heh) and since I happen to live across the street from one of the city’s charter schools, some get-to-know-you game sounds from a group of 20 to 25 young teachers/staff standing in a circle outside the window. Doing name games with the accompanying little embarrassed dance moves to connect motions to name memory. The silly stuff to watch and the good stuff to actually do. Yeah, I’ll admit it–I see the value in those icebreakers.

Looking forward to getting started with the new school year! In the short meanwhile though, days like these I’ll definitely take. Slow and easy. Home projects here and there. And later today with a nice lunch planned with an old roommate, a long afternoon bike ride and a promised visit to the gym.

I’ll happily take a pass on the name games for a couple more days…