Summer Newsletter 2025

July 2025

Happy summer,

Our daughter is educating our two-year old granddaughter about abundance, telling her that she has enough and can share. We can all learn more about that. We all have enough.

Nature right now is showing us how much abundance we have: flowers, gardens, growth, richness and joy. Can you feel it? How can we share our abundance? Can we make our little corner of the world better through sharing and being more generous?

In Chinese medicine, this is the time of the Fire Element.

Like flowers in bloom, we too are at the peak of our physical functioning during the Fire season. The energy of the universe supports this external expression of life. Fire energy is related to happiness, enjoyment, laughing, having fun, and playing. This is the time of year to find what makes us happy and do it. Joy, like fire, is ephemeral and expansive, warming us and bringing us light and laughter.

Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Shop at the farmer’s market or grow a garden. Cooling foods are cucumbers, watermelon, salads, lemons, and limes. Herbs that help to cool us are mint, chamomile, and lemon balm.

Summer is short in New England. Spend as much time as you can outside and enjoy nature’s abundance.

Sending love - and abundance,

Margaret

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