The Last Days of Summer

Nothing beats the quiet and serenity of the breaking of dawn. It’s the sort of peace that can only be found in pure moments of grace.This was one of the photos I serendipitously discovered while I was going through my memory cards. While these were taken on my last day in Samar after the May elections and was still in fact the middle of my summer, there was a quality to these photos that make me nostalgic. Exactly how it feels when summer is ending. I love summer and I wish it could last forever. But since its impermanence is precisely one of the reasons why I love it, then I would just have to settle with reminiscing and recreating summer throughout the year—the scent of my favorite sunscreen lotion, the beach this August, and travel, travel, travel no matter what time of year…