2010-I am preparing to go to the beach for a week, our family’s annual collective excursion. The timing is good this year. There is something about the seaside in summer, most likely the seeming constancy of sand and sea and sun, that appears to hold time suspended and lets me at least sample a small taste of what used to feel like endless summer. At the same time it feels hard to leave behind the vegetable garden, just beginning its peak production, the nectarines that are threatening to ripen all at once in my absence, the potted plants that require daily watering and the lawn that so easily grows out of control. Also this year I am way behind in my principal chore of scraping and painting the garage. It is a strange idea this vacation from one’s life, but probably a good exercise in focusing on the moment, in letting go. And come on, it’s not exactly a hardship.
2012- We finally had a decent night of rain and now the hot weather has resumed. There are more chances of rain in the forecast but no way of knowing I they will really occur. Still I have a small break from the constant watering. A yellow swallowtail on the purple butterfly bush; three monarchs on the Echinacea. Something in me says “trust nature”. Can I do that?
2013-Thinking about cycles and patterns. There’s this pattern of hot humid spells followed by more typical summer weather, the pattern of rainy summers over a couple of years then back to dry--seeing weather as all about the planet self-regulating. If the more frequent and violent storms are part of Gaia’s effort to regulate what is being pushed out of whack. the question is can the earth regulate what we’ve done/are doing? Or are we seeing the wobbling of the top as it loses momentum?
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