Hope is the Thing

Bear with me today… My post is a bit of a long-winded stream of consciousness, but I promise, there’s a point.

I’m back at work from two and a half weeks of vacation, and I’m already exhausted. Have you ever heard the words, “I need a vacation from my vacation”? Hardy Har-Har… Corny, I know, but basically the way I’m feeling these days. I don’t do a lot of vegging during my time off. Life is so busy that it feels like a waste to use vacation for sitting around, catching up on sleep, doing nothing. Instead, there are usually trips (even short ones) and a fair amount of activity.

Being busy is fulfilling to me, but it also means that at the end of my vacation, while I’m happy, I want another week to lie in bed, sleep in, and read whole books in one sitting. Reading this list of summer plans from Ugly Shoes and Paper Planes was literally painful. I h…