Good morning, May dear...

Today was the last day of April. That makes tomorrow the first day of May. Ha!

I feel about May a lot the same as a hiker feels about an uncharted mountainside.

So. With my eight minutes that I’ve got here before May starts and the ghosts of misused summers begin leaning in, here is my little pledge of accountability. There’s human food to be feasted on here, kids. There’s ground to be covered, mountains climbed, books read, people loved, skills honed, music heard and sights widened. I pledge to fill the summer with good stuff. The summer needn’t be rushed or packed. That isn’t what summer is for at all. But it should be well used. 

It’s 12:01. Happy May Day.

Read The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Take the littlest sisters out shopping one at a time – Watch Dr. Who – Watch a full length ballet with Mom – Deliver on my brilliant fitness plan – Learn how to “cut” on a slalom ski – spontaneous picnic – Write letters! – Write letters! – Write letters! – Write some poems – Love poems? – Bake a sugarless cake – Cook things for people – Serve – Drive to the Atlanta Temple – Show some love every day – Be a genius and figure out how to modify my retainer – Catch a lizard – Share a concert experience with my family – Take pictures of the cool stuff we do - Watch favorite movies dubbed in French – Make a friend – Twenty-five inch waist – Teach myself Swan Lake choreography – Music swap with the siblings and Dad – Fill mom’s iPod – Spontaneous field trip to Atlanta – Solo Day – Study the scriptures with gumption – Write in this blog better – Take a day and re-figure a basic understanding of literary history: who wrote what when – read “Proof of Heaven” – read “Jesus the Christ” – Re-read things – Beat Mariah in the tan-test – Unleash a little unchecked vanity for a while – Experiment with contemporary dance – Choreograph - Go to bed when I’m tired.
Wake up with the sun. 
Go outside. 
Be Present.