A good vacation doesn’t fit in a box, tied up with ribbon, that you can open years from now to say, “Yes, that’s what it was.”
A good vacation has time enough to look over the handiwork of spiders who’ve woven their webs in the overnight and now those webs glisten in the morning dew.
A good vacation has unplanned visits, particularly with young ones who bring their own views of us and what’s important.
A good vacation marks transitions, from young to not-young, from before-adventure to after-adventure.
A good vacation lets us learn about the big world in our small corner.
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| Fisher Museum – Harvard Forest |
A good vacation lets you sleep as much as you need to, work until it’s time to swim, swim until your toes are pruney, air-dry on the bench until the mosquitoes have had their fill, and talk for a long time because there’s always this one more thing to say.
A good vacation spills out of the box, onto the floor, and leaves tracks all around your house and yard and life.
It was a good vacation.