July Mood

Hello July! …and hello sunshine!

Despite my propensity for chunky knits and ankle boots, I am a summer girl at heart. Summer took its time arriving this year, but with July, warm weather and sunshine have finally arrived. And I am just so ready for it. For months, visions of white dresses and espadrilles have danced in my head. With our trip to Greece now just a little over two months away all I can think about in sunshine, blue skies and sand between my toes.

That said, it is still only July. Our trip to Greece is in September. And in the interim, I have to manage summer vacations for my staff, which, in the first week, is already proving to be a trying task. In that respect, at least, I knew what I signed up for…

…I would love to tell you more about that. But it seems that the rest of the post that I know I wrote and saved yesterday somehow disappeared into some sort of abyss. I know well that I saved the rest of what I wrote, because it didn’t ever cross my mind to scroll through the post this morning and check that it was all there. Why would I need to, after all? I wrote it. I saved it. Everything was ready.

More than twelve hours later, I’ve just noticed that have of my post is missing. If this sets the tone for my July, I am officially looking forward to it far less than I thought I was.

As for the rest of what I wrote? None of it was earth-shattering, of course. It probably wasn’t particularly meaningful, in the grand scheme of things. But as a writer, I can honestly say that there is nothing I find more frustrating than losing words I’ve penned knowing, I can never truly rewrite them the same way again. The right words are fleeting, and not always easy to come by. So, rather than making an effort to recreate a post that will never really be the same as the original, I will just leave this year. And hope that you are all having a better start to this month than I am.

Happy July, my friends!