Here we are, at the mid-point in the year, just past the Solstice weekend, true Summer is underway and the natural world continues to work to that expansive fruition moment of our harvest season. These next few weeks of largesse, of expansive light, of wandering hours of time deferred/time slowed, the real ethic of summer, continues to unfurl around us. It is the gift of slow time...the time to mull, to ponder, to enjoy the peace of hanging out with family and friends, of dabbling toes in rivers and lakes, of dropping off ropes into deep tidal pools, of lulling our saline selves doing a backfloat in the smooth sea of summer...yes, it's time deferred.... Isn't that the best message of summer? To take "five"...to recharge...to enjoy and to revive...that is the real gift of the season: a recalling to ourselves, to "be" ourselves. Take time...it's all we have, after all.