Like a child clinging to his mother’s side, I find myself on this mid-August morning gripping ever-so-tightly to summer’s waning days.

Along with all the precious perks that only a season like summer can render (a plethora of outdoor activities comes quickly to mind), for me, the one word that summer is synonymous with is nostalgia. The dictionary defines nostalgia as a “bittersweet longing for things, persons or situations of the past.”