Showing posts with label summer solstice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer solstice. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Icarus

Caltrain at Redwood City

I enthusiastically await the summer solstice every year. I love beginning each morning knowing that today will be brighter than yesterday. But this year, summer solstice is a month before the California bar, which I do not enthusiastically await. So this morning, when I caught the train after sunrise for the first time in weeks, instead of feeling the usual rush of excitement for blessed summer, I got the terrible feeling that I am flying closer and closer to the sun...

britt
p.s. Today I took my first practice exam for the Performance Test portion of the bar. It’s on my mind... I feel it like a sunburn.