Give back to the beauty and wonder of the earth by doing more to take care of it. Don't limit the abundant pleasures of summer to the actual season of summer. Live joyously, give and serve joyously throughout the year. As a child I dared to swim in waters that swarmed with jellyfish. I'd go a few strokes, get stung, run to the beach to rub the sting with sand, and run back into the water.
Summer is also the traditional season to celebrate some of life's true pleasures.
It's a time to let the juices in the fruit of the harvest dribble down your lips, and to give thanks for the abundance you have, even if there is pain in your life. I remember a sticky summer day when our stepmother still hoped she would survive colon cancer. Violet, my sister Peggy and I, two of Peggy's children and her daughter's fiance. Just for fun we did a writing exercise in which everyone took a simple phrase and ran with it for five minutes. As we read aloud what we had written, three separate viewpoints emerged.