“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…”, at least, that’s the vision.
On this, the last PauseCast episode for the season, we talk summer… what we hope to do, or be, for the coming summer break. Considering summer from a place of intention. But also, how to find our way into rest, and joy, and experiences that enrich our lives and memories to sustain us through those long winter months.
As David Whyte says in his great book “Consolations”: “Rest is the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be…”. With this, rest is the great enabler of returning to our balanced self. Summer allows times for languishing (we really mean "feeling languid" but we went with the word at the time, apologies for the mixup), for watching clouds and the shapes they make; sitting under deep velvet night skies and catching fireflies. Angie and I wish this for each of you, whenever summer lands in your place in this world. And Angie will embark on a summer of “Re” – re-reading, re-turning, re-membering, re-experiencing languid summer days.
The thumbnail of our episode this week is a peony from my garden… to honour Angie’s love of this perennial flower.
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You can hear Trudy’s son Callum Lurie on his YouTube page. He’s playing in Grand Bend and in Penetanguishene, Ontario with the Dreyton Theatre Festival.
Books we mentioned: Maggie Smith “Dear Writer” and “You Could Make This Place Beautiful;” “Bird by Bird” by Annie Lamott; “On Writing” by Stephen King; Michael Ondaatje “The English Patient” and “In the Skin of a Lion;” David Whyte’s “Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words”; “Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times” by Katherine May; anything by Alan Alda but we mentioned “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed” and his podcast “Clear and Vivid”
You can read more from Angie on her Substack, called “the bigger picture”
Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma