We’ve been stressing ourselves out about summer.
Somehow we’ve managed to make summer planning hard and draining. We seem to oscillate between having so many aspirations that we lose interest in doing any of them to equally dreading a blank slate.
When I’m at my worst, I am impatient, judgmental of our privilege and frustrated that we cannot just “figure it out!” even though I know that the best results don’t come from insistence or trying to control what happens.
“Sometimes structure steals true joy”, writes Joanna Gaines in this summer’s Magnolia.
Yes.
With this in mind, I’ve been nudging us to come up with a loose vision, or guiding words, or principles for the summer+ whilst also seeming to forget how I’d help others do the same.
And then today, a breakthrough in a text from Peter.
He has a knack for synthesis and words.
All we need are two guideposts.
Move.
Be still.
And to fully show up as ourselves.
The rest will take care of itself.
