Show IT 1 A 19 IW By Joseph H. Roberts Kit Vj I U tTO COPYRIGHT 1978 Contemporary Features and something month stir memories and make me sad lowing they are not the same any I remember the good times we used to have on the long Labor Day those last summer v. hen joys were sweeter because they were our last before we settled into the routine of and the excitement that as we anticipated the first football games and school starting when the smell of new books and chalk dust replaced the odor of honeysuckle and sun and buying new for fall family affair Oh I'm wistful now but I know once I Into things I'll un In the excitement of activity and just as Always 1 7 he fa seaon with Its hf M days and now and then a chilly breeze to remind us of things to come-its cool nights Gradually slipping Us exquisite flowers blooming and turning into a of colors' and the very busyness ot of It u a all as Ks Ets chiE the d T in SS' the shoppers traffic and workers stepping up the pace a leisurely summer But just before the plunge when September first I feel a if t f me h ff left behind I am reluctant in tard It is not because rm getting exactly although I am aware f more so in September than I am in February J mv month for I have always counted the years by their and autumn has been the first for I I have spent a T m m 0 j. f f f feel n 1 had not done what I was supposed to do or something down didn t meet a keep an appointment a promise spend my time and talents read a book or write 1 CimA for sure what 1 have left undone or didn't even start to but a vague sense of failure frets at the edge of my consciousness' There are when the thought of another summer gone touches me with and I brood over and 1 have known and loved who have been left bac time separated from me by death or and I miss them I like the mers' they retrieved and the I missed can never come and I can find no consolation in were sq 1 guess 1 am not the one who ls his losses at the close of but is a private feeling ripple pre to to They don't around talking about it about lt in a When it they probably push the sadness aside and busy themselves packing away their summer testing the furnace before the first snaP or raking in their yard- No doubt they are wise- for work is the best therapy for the And I will not indulge myself in melancholy for very I know that all I have to do is glance at my calendar and I will be galvanized into But before I go dashing into I want to give myself a few more moments here in the quiet of my I want to remember the dreams I had and the chances I never took when I was young and summer seemed Perhaps then out of those sweet sad moments of I will become finally reconciled to my limitations and be able to do the best I can with whatever time and talents are left to me without fretting over what might have |