Slow Living Through the Seasons | June

Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon!

“Days pass, years vanish, and we walk sightless among miracles.”

Jewish Sabbath Prayer

Tune in to celebrate the many joys of June! A few highlights from this episode…

• Memories from a time of carefree summer

• The firefly phenomenon

• Reflection on the summer solstice

• Berries…and how to make a simple berry pie!

• June planting calendar is here!

June

by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) 

What is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays:
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
Every clod feels a stir of might,
An instinct within it that reaches and towers,
And, groping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers;
The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys;
The cowslip startles in meadows green.
The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice,
And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean
To be some happy creature's palace;
The lit…