Wednesday Humpday Midday Music: “Summer’s Gone” by Bob Bradley and Thomas Balmforth

It’s not officially fall yet in 2025, but in the of praxis of childhood, our summers ends when school starts. That annual transition sticks with you into adulthood in many ways, but instead of breaking into school we just break out our hoodies, knit hats, boots—rituals remnant from this academic moveable feast day. The seasons will always change, but the end of summer vacations were more poignant because it meant the singular demise of one or two special things that would only happen in those few warmer months: that one relationship at camp, the friend moving away, the job at the farmer’s market. School would always be there, every year, but summers will always be the magic mystery box of growing up, stuffed with abeyant surprises.

Great comment on the video by lynnharper3624:

I know I’m a bit late, but this music and picture reminded me of a time that me and my friend sat on the rooftop of our military housing (in Okinawa, Japan) and watched the last sunset of the year fade out of the brilliant reds, oranges and purple that it stained the sky with, watching the light fade out of that giant tree in the front yard, watching while knowing that she was moving soon, that we wouldn’t see each other for years, knowing that everything was about to change when we were too young for that, we had to grow so fast… But we sat there, and enjoyed that last sunset, because we knew that even with the craziness of the world, even if we could not see each other for a long time, maybe years, we knew that we had each other, through everything. It has now been almost 4 years since we have seen each other and we still are as close as ever, we only talk maybe three for four time a month but those talks last for hours, we live in different states and are about to be in different countries again, but we still make an effort to go onto our roofs wherever we are, and just take a while to watch the sunset. Everyone, no matter where you are, especially now, take some time to just watch the sunset, it doesn’t have to be long, just a few minutes of absolute peace.