Keep your summer spirit

Embrace a little wildness, even as summer ends

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is to keep your summer spirit. Even if September
signals the end of summer, the best parts of summer

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can stay with you all year long. So I recently
encountered the phrase summer spirit while reading Laura Lisa's new book,
Beach Life. As her family neared their beach community, one
of her daughters remarked that I can feel my summer spirit.

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The little girl described that it feels like happiness and
brightness and it's wild. I love this image. I think
many of us harbor some sort of summer spirit in
our psychees too. In adulthood, summer isn't necessarily all that
different from the rest of the year. We still have

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to work, we still have to handle our household responsibilities.
But if you grew up with extended periods of time
off from school, the season just feels different. It feels
more relaxed, but also a little untamed. Labor Day in

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the US tends to mean the end of the summer season.
Even so, I think it's possible to keep a summer spirit.
It just means asking what would make life feel full
of happiness and brightness and perhaps a little wild. Maybe
it means taking a last minute weekend trip to visit

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a friend sometime and thus squeezing a little extra bit
of vacation into a busy schedule. Maybe it means eating
a picnic. Plenty of fall days are still lovely, so
why not have dinner on the porch. Maybe it's doing
something you've never tried before, or trying to spend more

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time outside. The good news, well, and the bad news too,
is that time keeps passing, and so before we know it,
it will be summer again. Perhaps come next June that
sense of summer possibility will on its own just reappear.

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But even as the weather gets colder and the days
get darker, now the wildness of summer doesn't have to
dwindle to nothing. Just ask what would add happiness and
brightness to ordinary days. If you embrace those adventures, then
you will probably be on a good track. In the meantime,

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This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
the most of our time. Thanks for listening to before breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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