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FROM THE EDITOR
Summertime Blues
WHEN I WAS a student, from childhood into my 20s, I would spend much of the school year
looking forward to the summer. June would arrive, classes would end, and the unscheduled
days would stretch out in front of me like the waving fields of wheat that reach all the
way to the horizon. Adulthood carries with it the expectations and responsibilities that
translate into schedules and requirements, but somehow summertime gives us permission
to put some of that aside and be a bit easier on ourselves.
Even today, with childhood memoI
rely on the sounds of summer -
ries living like relics in the corners
of my mind, I feel like summer is a
regenerating season. I thrive on the
warm weather and the days with
extra hours of sunlight. Many people
use New Year's Eve as the time to
determine their resolutions and plans
for the future. I prefer to use the summer.
It's easier for me to look at life as
a big picture when I'm immersed in
the same feeling of freedom that the
end of the school year used to bring
each June.
lawn mowers, summer bugs, children
playing, soft breezes - to keep myself
focused on the small joys that life
brings us. I'm pretty easily excited
by the tastes of summer - corn on
the cob, watermelon, tomatoes off
the vine, anything that grows in my
garden - because that fresh local
goodness is only available seasonably.
I look forward to the events of
summer - county and state fairs,
outdoor concerts, baseball games,
road trips - as reminders that some
glorious things don't change. And as
for the blues, the name of this little
missive, summertime always seems
to bring with it the most beautiful blue
skies - both day and night - the bright
blues of swimming pools and the deep
blues of lakes, blue birds, blue flowers
- and all of it is accessible because we
can be outside to enjoy it.
And so this brings me in a very
slow, summery, roundabout fashion,
to the point of this piece. Coming out
of COVID-19, we have an opportunity
to think about our work the way we
used to think about school being over.
Sure there will be a lot more work to
come, more clients with more needs,
more busy seasons, new technologies
to learn, new challenges to overcome
GAIL PERRY, CPA
Editor-in-Chief
gail.perry@cpapracticeadvisor.com
@gperrycpa
- but right now, as summer begins, it
is a great opportunity to take some
time to look around, enjoy the simple
beauty of where we are, revel in the
great work that we do, and appreciate
who we do that work with. If you
slow down and let yourself embrace
the summer months, the pleasure
associated with the knowledge that
we are all coming back together can
be just as precious as those long days
of childhood summers.
I hope you too will be able to
capture the joy of summer and take
it with you into the fall and winter and
the future of your work and your work
relationships.
CPA
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