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Susan Dromey Heeter is a writer from Dover who recently let her hair go au natural white. Writing has been her passion since her English majoring days at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dromey Heeter has lived in The Netherlands, Alaska and currently basks in all things New England, including the frigid winters. An avid swimmer, Dromey Heeter’s great passion is to bring back body surfing as most children have no idea how to ride waves without ridiculous boogie boards.
I keep a bathing suit and towel in the back of my car for swimming emergencies, have been known to change behind a tree and jump in too cool off when the air conditioning is just not enough or simply does not work in my 2004 Passat wagon.
Every once in a while, a lesson, a class, a moment goes so beautifully, my wish is to recreate, to have a re-do, to plan an encor
And I got to thinking – wouldn’t it be wonderful if some other things came like summer ice cream cones? Like giving to InDepthNH.org.
Today I muse on what works, on what stays, on what brings joy. And that, my friends, are my window boxes filled with impatiens.
I tear up from start to finish and muse joyfully when I think of the celebration of time, effort, joy.
Today, dear Joyful Musers, I celebrate the art of the walk.
Today I muse joyfully on outside chairs; chairs on the grass, chairs on the beach, chairs around a campfire.
I muse joyfully you will meet up with one of your belly laugh friends and drive with no agenda, sip coffee, tell stories and delight in getting together apres Covid.
“Just click here.” It’s a command I muse joyfully I will not hear as much as my spring progresses. I’m done with clicking and mousing and screens. I’m ready to click off.
And I muse joyfully on plans, on skills to be mastered but today I celebrate my little next door neighbor who just learned how to swim.