Today's Gift from Hazelden - 5/16/02

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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 03:07:25 -0500
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Today's thought is: 
"Summer afternoon--summer afternoon; to me 
those have always been the two most beautiful 
words in the English language."
--Henry James

Low humming sounds and sun-baked hazy days lull 
us into the slowed pace of summertimes. When we 
were growing up nothing was more magic than 
summertime. The hot-sweet-smelling days seemed 
to stretch on forever then. Summer was play itself, a 
seemingly endless string of months to work off 
energy and dream about the possibilities of 
everything and anything. Long daylight hours gave 
us a world that seemed boundless in its capacity to 
soothe and delight.

Children know best how to settle down into the 
heart of summer, to let go in deep down ways, to 
simply "be" and enjoy.

How long has it been since we sat down with 
summer and let her envelop us with smells, sounds, 
and memories? Just sitting still outside on a 
summer night, getting reacquainted with the season, 
can make us feel like kids again.

Today, let me make the time to relax into a summer 
day in the way of childhood.

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Seasons of the Spirit by Sally Coleman and Maria Porter copyright 1994
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