patience + nourishment
The Summer Solstice was a week ago and I spent a couple of days at my parents’ house “down the hill.” My husband was out of town so I pulled Angel out of summer camp, packed our swimsuits and basked in the sunshine in the swimming pool with my son and parents.
We’d spend the mornings lazily waking up and sitting on the patio. Our afternoons with a snack and a beverage, under the most beautiful tree that shades their deck. I was there such a short time but I felt so restored. It reminded me of our summers as kids at Lake Panorama in Iowa, sunburnt and blissed out, making some of the core memories that stick with me the very most.
I have been trying to get a lot done here at the beginning of summer. Things to figure out, launch, design. It also didn’t help that our weather was decidedly very non-summer-ish (new word!) here to kick it off.
As I was reading about the Solstice a couple things really landed for me. This season is NOT FOR DOING! (Hello, Virgo maniac!)
It is for patience and nourishment. In fact the Summer Solstice marks the transition from action to nourishment.
As Mary Oliver writes above, “I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs. The world I live in and believe in is wider than that. And anyway what is wrong with maybe?”
These words are exactly what the practice of embodiment gives me and what I hope to give my students. I just sometimes forget, like all of us.
And goodness, I love my work and it does feel like nourishment, just not when I’m to-do listing my life away out of habit. Going to sit here in the hammock a bit longer and get quiet.
Happy nourishing.
Thank you for being here.
