A Word on Cycles, Seasons, and Solstice

I started getting a weekly vegetable box in my mid-20s, back when I lived in San Francisco. I was studying Ayurveda back then and it was important to eat with the seasons.

It would take years before I could successfully cook through everything in my veggie box, eat seasonally, and cook the way I’d envisioned back in those early days. To this day, embracing seasonality has been one of my biggest lessons.

As we close out our spring session and take a break before we begin the summer session, I’m feeling the importance of reinforcing the pause. Although we are conditioned to think of time as linear, moving from one milestone to the next, I often imagine time as a series of expanding concentric circles. When we return to a place we have been before we are both the same and changed. Our knowing expanded, marking time not just with accomplishments but with an unfolding inside ourselves.

Reflecting on the Season

The rhythm of the seasons offers us a return, a chance to revisit something familiar with fresh eyes. So in the spirit of closing one season and welcoming in what’s next, I encourage you to reflect on the Spring:

• What did this past season teach you?
• How have you changed from having lived through it?
• What did you plant, let go of, or tend to?
• As the solstice arrives tomorrow, June 20th, what intention might you want to set for the coming season?
• Are you craving play, rest, adventure?
• Do you want to focus on something new, or tend more lovingly to something that already exists?

What Summer Brings

Personally, I always expect summer to be slow. And in some ways, it is. The schedule relaxes, the hustle softens.

But I’ve come to realize that, workwise, spring is a time of planting and patience, while summer is full of energy, movement, and growth.

I’ve learned to temper my expectations of slowness and instead welcome the spontaneous harvest of what’s been quietly coming to life.

Welcoming the New Season

Wherever this new season finds you, I hope you’ll meet it with presence and a gentle curiosity for what’s ready to emerge.