Happy August!!

“One day you discover you are alive.
Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight!
You laugh, you dance around, you shout.
But, not long after, the sun goes out. 

Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” 
 Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Hope your summer is going well!
We, here is the Boston area, have been having numerous heat waves, keeping me hunkered down in front of my air conditioner,  in a fort made of curtains  and draped fabric, to contain the cool. 

peace,
Virginia

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Bring on everything good and everything magical ...

"Everything good, everything magical happens 

between the months of June and August."

Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Happy Summer ... your June calendar

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll

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May this dress remind us to be at ease ...

When we are at ease, our bodies work efficiently, 

our minds settle, and space opens up for us

 to connect to our intuition, creativity, and sense of connectedness.

Tara Stiles

to be at ease ... perfect advice for

the dog days of summer!

stay cool ...

love, mom

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may this dress remind us to live our one wild and precious life!!!! XXX

The Summer Day

Mary Oliver

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean-

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

from New and Selected Poems, 1992

Beacon Press, Boston, MA

Copyright 1992 by Mary Oliver. All rights reserved.

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may this dress bring you a bit of summer . . . .

In the depth of winter
I finally learned
that there was in me
an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

for those of us up north who may be getting 

just a bit tired of this cold, gray and did I say cold?? january . . .

and for those of us that are experience another kind of winter -

let us tap into our invincible summer!!

#toocold

peace


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