Posted July 24, 2009

I still miss summer vacation. I can’t seem to adapt to the notion of having to work all year round. So I keep working, but thinking I am on summer vacation.

            

Summer or not, I am determined to LIVE. Not just live, but while alive, to truly fully LIVE life . . . (Know what I mean, Vern?) to squeeze the juice from life 'til it runs down my chin.             

            

I visited my dear aunt Martha in Canada on way to my high school reunion recently. She is in her late 80’s, acutely aware of her own physical and mental deterioration and that she is nearing the end of her allotted days. We visited my uncle's grave, and later those of my parents. Somber moments, that put life in perspective.

            

Life is to be lived - not just walked through, but savored; each flavor, the bitter and the sweet, the salty, meaty and the sour and all combinations. Each is a flavor of life. They are not all the same, just as each course of a meal is not a sweet dessert. And each flavor may be savored as a part of this meal put before us. 

            

On the subject of life and living it to its fullest, I just learned that the toy industry lost one of its great matriarchs Wednesday evening. Mrs. Lynn Pressman lived to be 97 and ran Pressman Toys for many years after the passing of her husband. She was honored at Toy Fair this year by the TIA and the toy industry as a whole.

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