The current issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly is themed: ‘SUMMER, The Beautiful Season.’ I submitted an essay that I wrote two years ago while struggling with seasonal depression that fall, and I’m delighted to announce it is included in this edition, along with many other essays, poems, photos and works of art.
I write about the seasons and my intuitive ways of connecting with them because the seasons themselves are changing. Our planet is changing.
And they’re changing because we are changing. We’re in this together.
And rest assured – I will not let another summer come and go without loving her. I will not flail into shifting tides. I will surrender, wholly, completely, to the embrace of that season’s medicine.
Did you know: every season is a teacher, a guru?
And each season teaches different lessons every recurrence. No one season is truly ever the same each year. Never was. But as the seasons as we know them change more dramatically with climate change, it’s my preference to be present for all the joy, sadness, growth, wisdom and healing they bring.
My new essay in the Summer ’25 edition of Still Point Arts Quarterly is all about this. Find the latest issue — Summer: The Beautiful Season via the Shanti Arts Publishing website here. Print copies are $16.50 or you can subscribe for the free digital version.