I am not sure what it is about summer that makes us take a step back and be a little more lackadaisical.  Someone coined the phrase the “Lazy Days of Summer” but I prefer to look at summer as a respite for the soul.  If you have or have had any connection to education – even being the parent of a school-aged child, you know the excitement that comes with the last day of school and summer vacation.  There seems to be permission to do less.  It becomes ok to lie in the grass and look at the shape of the clouds, catch lightening bugs at twilight, and if you live in my household, run out at night to watch the space station fly over.  I will say that summer is the time that I tend to disengage from the world letting my mind wander allowing my creative thinking to sprout with ideas.  When we push ourselves and are constantly on go, we squeeze out the time for our creative brain to do its work.