sara by the season

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), there are five seasons (in Ayurveda, there are six! ) with the fifth being late summer. It is a shorter season and begins around the middle of August and ends at the fall equinox. It is associated with the Earth element, and I wrote more about it last year around this time. This year, because I’m back to this unsettled, even flighty feeling once mor...

Back at the beginning of May, overwhelmed with how behind I was with the garden and - honestly - with life in general, I was talking with my spiritual advisor, lamenting my long to do list and all of the things that weren’t getting done. She gave me an assignment: to go sit out by the garden, and as to do list items came up in my mind, to practice saying “f**k it.” Weeds taking over the greens bed...

For those of you who prefer to listen instead of read - above is an audio version of the main body of the newsletter (you’ll still have to check out the actual newsletter for the links). You can listen directly above or choose to open in your favorite podcast app. Let me know what you think! Hi friends! I accidentally took the month of July off from this space, but I’m back for now and, if not ref...

A few weeks ago, I was late to picking up a kid at something (this is not unusual so I can’t remember what it was), and across the street, I saw a mama duck and her ducklings. They had made it across the four lane street, but the ducklings couldn’t make it up the curb. I was trying to figure out how to turn around to see if I could help them, but I was stuck because there was a median and the afor...

I’m trying something new for those of you who prefer to listen instead of read - an audio version of the main body of the newsletter (you’ll still have to check out the actual newsletter for the links). You can listen directly above or choose to open in your favorite podcast app. Let me know what you think! Since the year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder on May 25th, there have been a thousand...

I’m trying something new for those of you who prefer to listen instead of read - an audio version of the main body of the newsletter (you’ll still have to check out the actual newsletter for the links). You can listen directly above or choose to open in your favorite podcast app. Let me know what you think! I was listening to a podcast this week that veered into a bunch of Covid denialism. It was...