{"id":20767,"date":"2015-05-25T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20767"},"modified":"2015-05-25T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T14:31:30","slug":"on-the-threshold-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20767","title":{"rendered":"On the threshold of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In and around New Orleans there has been a frenzy that begins with the first of the year countdown to the overlapping, overwhelming festivals and events in this city. If you have a young child, then the season coincides with end of school activities as well as the end of extracurricular this and that. You get to this day – Memorial Day – and you are just shagged out. <\/p>\n

Recently, summer stomped in leaving wet bare footprints on the floor and a heat that you can already feel baking through the walls. I’m no more ready for bathing suit weather than I am for seeing my garden slip into the inferno stage of its growth – except for the tomatoes that worship the heat. Summer offers one respite that I crave – the ability to slow down, to invent new routines, to slip out of obligations and to embrace laziness with a renewed vigor.<\/p>\n

This is the beginning of long, hot summer, and I feel in my bones a new consciousness is also burning its way in. What a lovely time to pare down to priorities, and revisit what is meaningful. <\/p>\n

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