Recently our neighbors have started a kind of loose social club called the Gridley Rd Hoppers. It's a great excuse for all the neighbors to sit outside on a warm summer night and have a couple of drinks and tell our old stories to new people.
Satu, for some reason, always ends up as the child magnet. She spends 90% of the time drawing on the sidewalk and rescuing 2 year olds from eating bugs. It makes me wonder if it really is too late for us to adopt a child. She has such a warm heart and she is so patient and kind to kids. She may be the only grown up who still remembers what it is actually like to be a child. It opens her endless imagination.
She catches lightning bugs, chases frogs, talks to squirrels and never abides by bedtime rules. She is also funny, playful and curious. I can't until the locusts come out again this year and we have Halloween adventures at our local pumpkin festival. Being in love with Satu often reminds me of how happy I felt as a child learning about the world with my best friend. With her, I feel safe, loved and fully myself.
How lucky we are to have this summer together, to be safe and to be loved.
