As these summer days evolve, unfold, manifest the very essence and depth of life in radiant, brillant, big love, I am touching the ground with reverence, and looking around with eyes seeing abundance, with my heart feeling awe, breathing in my belonging. Thank you Jess Housty for expressing these feelings into words that resonate on this rain filled precious new Summer day.

“Go out into the world.

Stand or sit or hold your body like a precious thing: hold as much of your body as you can exchanging gentle touch with the ground.

When you look around yourself, name all the ways you see thriving mapped onto your surroundings.

Now, name all the ways that you map the abundance onto what’s around you.

You are intrinsic to the good work happening around you; breathe in your belonging; breathe out the question,

How can I build kinship and community in this moment?”

-Jess Housty (from Crushed Wild Mint: Poems (2023, Nightwood Editions)