Quotes from the Classics: June
Happy Solstice, everyone! We’re really in the swing of it now! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, you know all the people are doing all the things. Air conditioners are running full speed even as we venture out to birthday parties, barbecues, and lakeside picnics. It can be so fun and it can also be uber exhausting if we don't pace ourselves. If you’re like me, you can benefit greatly from saying yes to things that light you up AND the most beautiful no you can muster to things that don’t. See my May post for more on that. I don’t always get it right but when I come close, I’m able to enjoy this season of full bloom so much better!
Happy Solstice, everyone! We’re really in the swing of it now! If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, you know all the people are doing all the things. Air conditioners are running full speed even as we venture out to birthday parties, barbecues, and lakeside picnics. It can be so fun and it can also be uber exhausting if we don't pace ourselves. If you’re like me, you can benefit greatly from saying yes to things that light you up AND the most beautiful NO you can muster to things that don’t. See my May post for more on that. I don’t always get it right but when I come close, I’m able to enjoy this season of full bloom so much better!
Flowers and bubbles by Raquel Hamner The_Candid
Besides being a time when pacing is a must, June feels like such a turning point because, well, it is. Hate to be a downer, folks, but the year is almost half over. What?! Dang! While it’s crazy to think the minutes have ticked by that quickly, we’re not shopping for Christmas gifts just yet. It’s actually a really good time to check in with what you wanted to accomplish at the beginning of the year. The blueprint for the plant is in the seed and now that the seeds are starting to show themselves, we can see where we’ve been spending our precious time and what we’ve been nurturing. Is it what you intended? Are you surprised? Did you consciously choose or are your unconscious intentions running the show?
June asks us to look and face reality (which can sometimes take courage), to review and reassess, to celebrate the wins so far, and to course correct if necessary. It’s also fraught with hope because it reminds us there is still an opportunity to become who we are meant to be. There is always that opportunity. Here are some quotes from the classics to keep you inspired:
“The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success.”
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.”
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Love in all things,
April Eileen
P.S. I don’t know if we’d consider that last one a classic but it’s just so dang pretty. ;-)