❀ ODE TO SUMMER ❀
Summer is drawing to a close, but I can earnestly say I have loved it well. And gratefully I can say it has loved me as well!
I am not yet ready to wrap my cloak around and do nothing but sip cocoa by the fire, but I am listening to the whisper of the changing leaves, feeling the tug of contemplation deeper in my heart, and musing on the more meditative season to come…
For the truth is, much as I love, Love, LOVE summer, I also love the gentle quietude of the darker time of year.
Her riches of insight, digestion of the whirlwind of seasons past, time to revision, pause, let go…
For me, the warm months can be quite a whirlwind! Even as I pace myself gently, beginning with the stirring winds of spring I become swept away – by new things budding, all the human activity, wildflowers that can be glimpsed only for a moment…
Oh precious life! But I would not trade you for a thousand, thousand winters, even as I treasure their slowing down, deep rest, and long dreaming nights…
So I will gather your seeds and hold them close to my breast, keeping them until in pre-spring’s light we meet again in dark soil softening, stirring…
And in the dark night, I will remember you with a heart full, write songs to you, paint pictures of light, and continue to muse on how I may best serve you in the cycles to come…
🌻 Thank you, summer! 🌻
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Ariana Saraha is a singer & musician from the wilds of the West with a passion for primordial beauty and the more-than-human world. Whether writing, singing, or drumming, her mission is to invite us to remember our place beyond the trappings of civilization and the accepted meanderings of the mundane mind. She and her band have just released From the Wild, and are working on their next album while continuing to find wonder and inspiration even in the everyday.