This summer has been filled with so much sweetness this year, like a box of candy: Sweet cantaloupes hanging heavily all over the trellises, sweet corn tasseling tall, sweet watermelons red and crisp and cool, sweet ground cherries in their paper husks, sweet peppers kissed red by the sun, sweet sungold cherry tomatoes glowing in the tomato thicket, sweet smells of tulsi and cinnamon basil baking off in wafts from the herb garden in the noonday sun, sweet adventures with my daughters, sweet moments with friends talking and sharing and hugging and singing in the evenings on the porch overlooking the flower garden all filled with colors and sweet smells and butterflies in the shining sun, and fireflies in the gold-and-violet evenings.

This spring was so busy and exhausting, the summer too feels so full, i keep trying to pull myself in and get everything settled for fall, and then end up with too many things happening all at once and trying to make too many people asking me for too many things happy, and to much fuzzy, fizzy, fussy, busy static all in the the background.

I want to chrysalize for a bit and work out what I have energy for and what I don’t and put my feet in the soil and grow some roots, and i keep getting distracted. So if you don’t hear from me, or if I’ve let you down, please don’t worry. Know that I am wrapping myself up in a wrapper of silver and jade like the Queen butterflies among the flowers and sitting very quietly while things break down and sort themselves out into a new shape.