Hi there, 

I saw a post today from a friend stating that the temperature had dropped to 55 degrees overnight and that this morning you could feel summer and fall beginning their collision.

All I could think of was how absolutely jealous of her I felt. My family moved to Florida when I was fifteen and the hardest thing, even all these years later, is the atrocious heat of the summers. Worse yet, Florida summer in my area begins in mid-April and is still going strong in mid-October. 

Don't get me wrong, the winters here are amazing, the sunsets can't be beat and it is never more than 75 miles to a beach. But ugh, the heat! 

To paraphrase Gollum: "I hates it, I hates it forever!" Ok, off my silly little soapbox.

Have you ever experienced a friend telling you years after the fact that a particular action helped set them on a path 

they still keep following today?

That happened to me over the weekend due to a (old /cough) photo of myself along with three very good friends all dressed up as 17th century English cavaliers being shared. Aside from our obvious youth, I noted in I had personally made every item of clothing in the picture with the exception of one friend's. I had helped him draft and fit a pattern but he had done all of the sewing himself. He commented that my help and encouragement had set him on the track that included becoming a Master of the Laurel in the Society for Creative Anachronism. I was both floored and flattered since at the time I was just glad to help a friend learn to do something new.

If there is a moral to be drawn from my tale, it's to try to be mindful of our actions but also never think that anything you do is too small to help or influence another.

Stay golden.