A Blessing for Letting Summer Go

saying goodbye through ceremony

Friends,

Whether we like it or not, summertime is coming to an end. If you have kids, they are already either back in school or getting ready to go, and whatever summer rhythms were created will be ending soon.

In many Indigenous cultures across the world, we celebrate the changing of the seasons, and for good reason—four times a year we get a sort of reset button, a space to evaluate the things that are and aren’t working in our life, space to dream about what’s next.

So today I thought I’d send you a blessing for letting summer go. In the coming weeks, take some time to light a candle, buy a fresh bouquet of flowers, and lean into a quiet moment.

Allow yourself to honor everything that summer has been, and everything that perhaps it hasn’t been—the goals that weren’t met and the joy that showed up.

Practicing ceremony, moments of gratitude and grief, allows us to move into what’s next.

A Blessing for Letting Summer Go

These days are tender,

the in-between space

where one season ends

and another begins.

So, we gather in

with the lit candle

and the fresh flowers,

with our questions

and our grief,