Apparently, this old puritan hymn is a dance tune meant to help young, chaste dancers follow the right steps and keep time with the choreography. How disappointing if that’s true. Even if it is, I choose to hear it instead as a gentle charge to continue following my conscience, finding my True North, remaining on
Summer. The season of swimming pools and family vacations. Of homework-free evenings, barbecues, late nights and later mornings. It’s a time when kids and adults alike are permitted a chance to slow down. The break from homework, dance, school projects, the morning drop-off routine and the hamster wheel schedule we’re on during the school year is
