Summer is upon me, and for once, I
really am not looking forward to it; Now, please do not get me wrong...Back
when I lived in Philadelphia, I used to enjoy summer. But now that I live with
my uncle and my aunt in Dover, Delaware (actually Felton, DE), somewhere in my
mind I dread summer...Here is the reason: My uncle drives the school bus, and
throughout the school year, he would drive the kids to and from school. Before
I landed my food service cleaning job, back in October 2018, I would enjoy
staying at home and to just enjoy the quietness of the house whenever my uncle
was away driving the school bus and my first cousin would be at a school doing
janitorial work.
Now, with summer being just around
the corner, I am going to know that these two people are going to be without
jobs for a short period of the summertime, and that would surely also mean
this: Be prepared to kiss the quietness goodbye, at least for those three
months: June, July and August...Well, actually, the school year begins again in
late August.
And with the fact that my uncle
and first cousin would be off work for a few months, I have this worry: I worry
about how they are going to survive those few months; Now, I know that it is
not any of my business, but my uncle and first cousin may somehow be going to
look for other temporary jobs that would earn them some extra money. I am
hoping as well as praying that nothing bad happens to my family throughout the
entire season of summer as it approaches...
Meanwhile, on the other hand, I have been doing a bit of pre-planning
for my own summer; I am planning on spending my summer doing what I have done
last summer: Writing stuff and reading books. After all, isn't what writers do
all the time? Well, at least some if not all of the time...
I have read somewhere that if you
want to be a good writer, then you have to read a lot; I read myself, in fact,
I would open a book and just focus on the words of the book while reading it
for 60 minutes! Wow, that's a lot of time for one to read something, isn't it?
But then again, I would get on a bus, and with only 15 minutes before I would
reach my destination, I would read a book or eBook.
Anyway, I am planning to begin my
new chapter in my next career as an author as well as a food service cleaner; I
have been doing a blog for a company called WordPress for the past 6-1/2 years,
but the time came when I just could not do it anymore...I mean, I just cannot
go on with the rest of my life blogging and just be and author and food service
cleaner at the same time. It was either one or the others. I began to listen to
my heart and began to choose the others: Author as well as a food service
cleaner for a company called Sodexo at the Dover Air Force Base.
So it was
with that that, in March, I have made the announcement that I would be shutting
down my WordPress-hosted blog, called KALEIDOSCOPE, on June 14th; And I pretty
much guess they have already known of this by now, but I hope that they, as
well as you, would get the idea.
Meanwhile, I am very much prepared
for the rest of my life, one that does not involve publishing blog posts almost
every day; However, should I ever make the decision to return to blogging one
of these days, then I would be doing so; But until that time ever happens, I
would be concentrating on my work as a food service cleaner while making summer
plans to read...and then write.
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