The headline in this morning's Spokesman-Review talked about how to combat summer brain drains, specificially for students.  I thought to myself that summer should not be blamed for brain drains.  

Quite the opposite:  I think summer refreshes, stimulates and soothes the brain, preparing it for the next installment where someone or something tries to stuff our brains with a whole bunch of new material----often material to which we might not be all that receptive.

Everything needs a break from the mundane, and I'm thinking summer does just that for the brain.  SEE, I've gotten poetic this morning and am just betting that it's the summer influence which helped that sentence roll off the keyboard. 

Seriously speaking, summer does allow us to point our brains different directions from the same-o same-o we may have experienced over a winter or a school year/Marianne Love, Slight Detour. More here.