Late Summer Transitions
When It's Okay if Nothing Seems to Fit
I’ve written three full drafts of posts about other topics, and none of them seem quite right, or possibly just not quite right for this moment in time.
It’s late summer. I can feel the transition in the air, even though it’s still 90-something degrees outside. There was a blissful weekend where there were temperatures in the 60’s for a second (what are the 60’s? what are the clothes for that?), but we are back to the late summer part of the season, where it seems like the heat just isn’t quite ready to give it up just yet.
And maybe that’s okay. August and September, I’m remembering, are very full months in my school context, and I feel like I’ve spent the better part of two months fighting between the work that needs to be done (that I’ll feel better when IS done) and the desire to not be working the hours it takes to get it done. On the days that I can let go of the stranglehold I feel of both the work and the free time and just do what’s in front of me, the struggle is less.
So it’s the moments that pull everything back together, to here and now, to experience instead of worry. Homemade Moroccan food with friends who aren’t afraid to go deep, but with playfulness. Getting my students out into their school garden for the first time this week (and hearing them work on pronouncing “kohlrabi”). Realizing that we have enough leftovers that I actually don’t have to make a separate meal for lunch this week. The leaves still being green, even if I am kind of done with the heat. Extra puppy time on Sundays.
I loved this newsletter by one of my all-time favorite writers. I’m in a phase of re-exploring my push/pull relationship with country music, and really enjoying this artist. I read two books by this author in the past few weeks; both are challenging and really wonderful (I read New Life, No Instructions and Let’s Take the Long Way Home).
I’d love to hear what you’re reading, listening to, watching, or paying attention to in these waning days of summer.
I’d love for you to join me for this month’s remaining Gentle Hatha classes (one this evening, if you happen to be on email between now at 7pm CDT). Just click below to register and get a calendar invite.
Hope you’re well!