SEASONS OF LOVE

How will you measure this Summer?

BY KRISTINE ROBERSON MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR

Last month, my middle child graduated from CSU Long Beach with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Acting. At the end of the department’s graduation ceremony, about a dozen graduates (my daughter included) got up and sang “Seasons of Love” from the musical Rent.

And now the song is stuck in my head. Don’t you hate that?

Do you know the song? The lyrics send us contemplating every minute in a year. What makes it a good year? What are the most meaningful minutes in a year? The song promotes community, laughter and love as what matters most...

“525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.

525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.

In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.

In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?

How about love? How about love? How about love?

Measure in love. Seasons of love.”

With Mother’s Day and graduations past us this year, we are now looking into the Dog Days of Summer, at long last! I wonder how many minutes we will celebrate community, togetherness and laughter at the Club this summer? What will be the measurement for your summer?

Time spent with loved ones at the Father’s Day BBQ, June 18?

The number of rounds of golf played with friends?

The number of smiles given to strangers and new members at the Club?

The number of snow cones and corn dogs ordered with your children and grandchildren at the Woodbridge Pool?

The number of pictures you got of your children and grandchildren at the Jr Summer Camps?

Whatever measurement you choose for this Season, I hope you are able to exceed your target.

Make it a good one.