We are restarting Cozy Juicy Real online games this fall. These are connective online card games where you and I and a small set of strangers spend an hour in a deep and surprising conversation driven by questions on cards. You'll be surprised by how joyful and energizing it can be. The next one is September 15th, DM me to let me know you'd like to come so I can save you a seat. Full calendar. If you are in Denver, I'm also hosting an in-person book club to discuss Rebecca Solnit's latest book "No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain" in October. If you are interested, let me know. |
We are restarting Cozy Juicy Real online games this fall. These are connective online card games where you and I and a small set of strangers spend an hour in a deep and surprising conversation driven by questions on cards. You'll be surprised by how joyful and energizing it can be. The next one is September 15th, DM me to let me know you'd like to come so I can save you a seat. Full calendar. If you are in Denver, I'm also hosting an in-person book club to discuss Rebecca Solnit's latest book "No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain" in October. If you are interested, let me know. |
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It's Palisade Peach season in Colorado.
This is one of my favorite seasons.
When I was a kid my mother bought multiple bushels of peaches and spread them out on sheets in the basement to ripen before canning for days in a hot kitchen.
Today, we just eat them as fast as we can, reveling in the season, gorging ourselves on their sweet juicy perfection.
At Mystic Seaport, CT you can take a garden tour and they talk about how fruit trees used to be bred to ripen gradually, so you could eat from them for weeks as different fruit reached perfection. But with industrialization, we bred fruit trees for convenience, so everything would ripen at once and pickers could move through the entire grove in one sweep.
What else in our life have we made more intense than needed?
Where else should we be finding seasons? Or slowing the seasons down and savoring things longer?
Globalization means that I could buy a peach in December if I wanted to, but I don't. I love the seasonality, love this time where I eat a peach with every meal. I think we've lost track of seasons, of local timeframes, of letting things ripen and making the most of them while they're here.
This is true of peaches. And relationships. And work. And energy. We have forgotten that everything has a season, an ebb and flow, a time of productivity and a time of renewal and rest. Remember that if you want to understand how you handle the change of seasons in your life and get some tools for thriving through them, newsletter subscribers get $100 off the AQai Adaptability Assessment, including 90 minutes of coaching for $200. |
It's Palisade Peach season in Colorado.
This is one of my favorite seasons.
When I was a kid my mother bought multiple bushels of peaches and spread them out on sheets in the basement to ripen before canning for days in a hot kitchen.
Today, we just eat them as fast as we can, reveling in the season, gorging ourselves on their sweet juicy perfection.
At Mystic Seaport, CT you can take a garden tour and they talk about how fruit trees used to be bred to ripen gradually, so you could eat from them for weeks as different fruit reached perfection. But with industrialization, we bred fruit trees for convenience, so everything would ripen at once and pickers could move through the entire grove in one sweep.
What else in our life have we made more intense than needed?
Where else should we be finding seasons? Or slowing the seasons down and savoring things longer?
Globalization means that I could buy a peach in December if I wanted to, but I don't. I love the seasonality, love this time where I eat a peach with every meal. I think we've lost track of seasons, of local timeframes, of letting things ripen and making the most of them while they're here.
This is true of peaches. And relationships. And work. And energy. We have forgotten that everything has a season, an ebb and flow, a time of productivity and a time of renewal and rest. Remember that if you want to understand how you handle the change of seasons in your life and get some tools for thriving through them, newsletter subscribers get $100 off the AQai Adaptability Assessment, including 90 minutes of coaching for $200. |
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 | The Devil's Highway: A True Story By Luis Alberto Urrea I went looking for a book to help me understand the US/Mexico border, and I found this.
It's from a different generation, a different set of understandings and yet . . . the systems it describes, the sacrifices people make to cross that border, remain.
And like almost all border stories, it is a story about climate change. It's not an easy read, but it matters. |
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Over on LinkedIn, I'm bringing back an old habit of thanking a few people each week. There is a lot we can't control in the world right now, but we can be better about letting the people who matter know they're making a difference. As always, your thank you for reading this far is a discount on a What's Next Workshop, AQai assessment, personalized Cozy Juicy Real session, or other work. Just respond to the newsletter. "If we say thank you and really mean it, we have said yes to our belonging together."
– David Steindl-Ross Yours, Rhiannon LinkedIn Team Weaving Calendar |
Over on LinkedIn, I'm bringing back an old habit of thanking a few people each week. There is a lot we can't control in the world right now, but we can be better about letting the people who matter know they're making a difference. As always, your thank you for reading this far is a discount on a What's Next Workshop, AQai assessment, personalized Cozy Juicy Real session, or other work. Just respond to the newsletter. "If we say thank you and really mean it, we have said yes to our belonging together."
– David Steindl-Ross Yours, Rhiannon LinkedIn Team Weaving Calendar |
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