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From the Editor: Our Summer
I am writing this from a beach getaway with my lifelong girlfriends - friends since elementary school. We went to Kohl together just a few years back and bonded through adolescence. We stuck together through high school drama, stayed in touch as we went to different colleges, were in each other’s weddings, and supported each other through early motherhood. When life gets tough, be it job loss, death, or illness, these are the friends you call because they know more about you than anyone and just a 10-minute phone call can make everything a little bit better. We try to reconnect in person at least once a year. We are bound by time and memory and place. They are my center.
Wherever we meet to reconnect, our conversation is largely based around Broomfield. Who has each of us seen or talked to or heard about? Admittedly, there is some “gossip.” As well as stories. And our Broomfield summer memories are prominent. The ones about riding bikes and swimming, playing tennis and sleepovers, a special birthday party and a first job, a date with a boy and fireworks at the park, learning to drive and cheerleading tryouts, testing boundaries and flirting with trouble. Finding out who we were. Memories and moments, made blurry with time, yet filling the layers of who we are today.
And still, summer is a time for creating memories. Summer in Broomfield today is filled with opportunities for community. Music, food, art, and outside are woven throughout. As you page through this issue you will find numerous opportunities to get out and about and experience Broomfield this summer. Maybe you could do so with a friend. Make a date to catch a concert at the new Palisade Park or try a new beverage at BrewHaha. Gather your neighbors for a summer book club and enter the Library’s Summer reading program as adults, or make the library a weekly stop with your kids and grandkids. Try a new restaurant and stay too long and laugh too loud and each too much.
May you find something to savor this summer. Something a little slower, a little richer, and a little centering. I hope you find and create a centering memory that brings you joy. Maybe that will happen at a beachside retreat with special people, but if that is not in the plans, Broomfied is a fine place for summer experience as well.
Happy Summer and thanks for reading,
