Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Summer doldrums
[Art: Another part of Diego Rivera's stunning work at the Detroit Institute of Art]
There is always a part of summer, right about now, that I kind of slow down. That's ok, of course-- it is kind of what summer is about for an academic-- but then I worry that my brain has turned off.
My internal counter to that, though, is that maybe it is good to turn it off for a while. And it's not like I'm not thinking or not doing anything at all; it's a part of the cycle of the year, and I really love that my year has these very distinct phases.
