A moment of 2022 captured in time forever. Photo credit to Nick.
I don’t know about you but this time of year is always a little bittersweet. The days are noticeably shorter but the warmth still lingers. And then there is this excitement of a new season to come. Maybe it’s the remnants of my childhood days and always starting school on 1 September.
Or maybe it is the mutability of the end of the summer and the new season fast approaching. The crops are just about ready for harvest. The leaves are starting to fall. Even the birds are not as chatty anymore.
Yet, summer still has some fight in her left.
I'm sitting in my comfy chair in Nick's room. The delicious smell of freshly brewed coffee still lingers in the air. The sun is slowly rising over the houses, starting to warm up yet another long summer day.
I'm at the tail end of a long and lazy week off work. I had no idea how I needed this, how my body needed it. Rest and I have had a tumultuous relationship but the more I'm leaning into the cyclical way of living (thank you Moon and astrology) and tuning into my own energy levels, the more I've started to embrace these lazy moments. And by lazy I mean long and slow meandering days where one thing leads to another without any set agenda.
I've also been pondering on my new upcoming work schedule and allowed myself to dream about all the things I want to do with the extra time off my day job. How I want to dedicate one of those days to collaborating with Nick on his photography business; how I want to finally get stuck into the proofreading course I signed up for in February; how I want to create more; and generally just have more spaciousness in my life.
I'm excited that it is literally around the corner and I can stop dreaming about it and actually start doing all these things. I'm tired of just dreaming about it all. I’m tired of just talking about it all and ready to act on these ideas I’ve been percolating. The slow creative life that I've been envisioning for a while now is starting to take a real tangible shape and I can't wait to be immersed in its warm embrace.
Throwback to 2020 and the launch of my very first plant hanger collection.
But for now, I will embrace the long and lazy summer days a little while longer. I will allow the ideas to percolate a little while longer. I will dream the dreams a little while longer.
How are you filling your summer days? Are you feeling the changing of the seasons already?