From Astrid Lindgren, author of the Pippi Longstocking books, here is some Buddhist advice disguised as two Swedes on summer vacation:
Pelle had already begun to dread the awful day when they would all have to go back to town. He had an old comb with as many teeth as the summer had days. Every morning he broke off a tooth and noticed anxiously how the comb grew thinner and thinner.
Melker saw the comb one morning and threw it away. To worry about the future was the wrong attitude toward life, he said. One should enjoy each day as it came. On a sunny morning like the present one, life was nothing but happiness. How wonderful it was to go straight out into the garden in pajamas, feeling the dew-wet grass under one’s feet, and then take a dip from the jetty and afterward sit down at the painted garden table to read a book or the paper while drinking delicious coffee.
Astrid Lindgrin, Seacrow Island.
OMG I was just thinking this morning that Fall is around the corner and how disappointed that made me feel. Thanks, I needed this. How is it that you always seem to have the antidote for my attachments and suffering?
Heh, probably because I thought the same thing about summer being over soon.