Well - everyone back to school for the new school year. There has actually been something quite comforting about the return- mostly because it is, at least in part, familiar and a reminder that life does not continue to be one constant assult of change. It was good to see friends again and there are plenty of new ones to be made as the school muddles all the children each year. Whole thing is kicked off by an ice-cream social evening - still warm enough for shorts and T-shirts (and even the insects seem to have died down although the cicadas are still chirping away). It is very nice to have friends at the bus stop now (our previous stop was a little lonely) even if our Cape Cod whale did not quite make it to school in one piece.
