On Vacation, Reflection, and the Difficulty of Truly Arriving Memorial Day weekend often arrives carrying a quiet promise: that summer might finally bring some relief. Calendars begin filling with vacations, long weekends, shore trips, weddings, delayed plans, and out-of-office messages. The season changes, and with it comes the hope that perhaps we will, too. And yet many people enter summer already exhausted. Not simply tired from work, but fatigued by the pace and fragment