Good chodesh Sivan to you! This is my Hebrew birthday month. Recently when I was taking a journaling course, someone pointed out that my “fresh starts” (i.e. Rosh Hashanah, new calendar year, my birthday month of June) fall roughly quarterly (the only one missing is early spring, which is Nisan, another beginning). This reminded me of these seasonal playbooks I had been admiring. And of course, one of my new favorite topics is time/seasons/planning.
So, a new season is beginning; summer is on the way. I know we’ve had some discussion about whether summer is special if your work schedule doesn’t change :-), but I am in camp Special. It’s still summer!
A few ideas for my summer: We are getting a new local Rita’s and I will need to try it out. I also have my four elements nature list to work through. And I hope to read more books with a summery feel (as opposed to reading self-help, which I enjoy but always has a “research” feel to me). Last year I went to amazing July Fourth fireworks with my mother, we will try to do this again if they aren’t on Shabbos.
This quote may be a little extra but it is beautiful:
All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.
-L. M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
So what can you do to make summer special for you?
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