Dear Diana,

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and

the thought has found words."

~ Robert Frost

Here's a fun fact! July is National Ice Cream Month! As the first official month of summer, that makes total sense, doesn't it?

I've been speaking with many people who say they're looking for a sort of lightness of being because there's been so much heaviness in the world.

So I'm suggesting that we all try to shine the light on our loved ones and those we run into during the course of the day.

Consider sharing this wonderful poem by James Crews and also consider reading and writing poetry!

Choosing the Light

We think of wildflowers as fragile,

amazed at the way they shoot through

layers of soil and plowed-up gravel

on the raw cusp of spring each year,

sensing some new heat and invitation

in the sun, often long before we do. 

But as I kneel beside the first tiny 

yellow coltsfoot to appear in the yard, 

in ground I’d think too rocky and cold 

for any living thing, I see they are 

not delicate. I notice the segmented 

stems that must have guarded each bud

as they pushed upward like spears

to pierce the warmer air. Relentless

as the urge that also blooms in us—

to find the things that bring us alive,

and open ourselves fully to them, never

giving up and saying to the world:

Do unto me what you must. Knowing

it will have been worth it to spend

even just one day, a single hour,

exposed to the light we chose.

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Happy Summer to one and all!