A Toast

Here's to singing loudly without a care, here's to running down the sidewalk in flipflops, here's to new beginnings. Here's to laughing so hard that you snort, here's to green tea on the veranda, here's to breaking open coconuts. Here's to walking without knowing where to go. Here's to dancing in the rain. Here's to neighbors and here's to friends. Here's to folding napkins. Here's to afternoons at the pool. Here's to green lights. Here's to hugs.
This is for summer, the summer of work and play and rest. This is for freedom, for unity, for hope. This is for cotton-fluff clouds and clear blue sky. This is for daisies and buttercups.This is for a new house, a new church, new people. This is for capture the flag and samosas. This is for living life as it comes, one day at a time. This is for family, all types of family, and unofficial family. This is for jumping insanely high on a trampoline. This is for iced tea and baby eels. This is for dancing to YMCA. This is for the smell of a newly mown lawn.
Cheers for sketchy stuff. Cheers for munibrow. Cheers for poems read in caves, cheers for a field full of flowers.

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