Summer 2024 has been a very mixed bag here in Ireland, suffice to say, a wet, cold, damp June has run well into July as I write this note on 15th. July. It is 14 deg, celcius here in Carrigaline this morning which is below normal ( this is below the Sydney mid-winter average). The rain is belting off the roof and it is surprisingly dull, grey and dark for 11am on a Monday morning. Luckily we managed a few weeks in Ondres, South West France, by ferry from Rosslare. Incredible part of France, warm temperatures, incredible beaches, sunsets, cycle paths, towns, food and wine. Picked up my Camino Passport in St. Jean Pied de Port, and it is hanging on the wall in front of me as a motivation for 2025. There are two passports, one for me and one for ????. If you dare to ‘YouTube‘ Camino Frances, you will enter a wormhole of content on the whole Camino movement. Enter at your peril.
Charlie’s Summer – The bugs, worms, butterflies, crabs, jellyfish, sand, the endless wonder of nature to a childs imagination, combined with a nuclear generation level of energy and appetite is truly epic, exhausting, joyous and heart filling. Donna Ashworths words put these days into perspective.
There will come a day
when you will glance
at your child
and be met by an adult.
And it will wipe the very floor
from under your feet
when you realise
in that moment
that you were only ever minding them
until they fly away.
Because back then
when you were so consumed
with the daily grind of parenting
you felt like this was forever.
Yet we know
nothing truly is forever.
Just a handful of years
you will know them as a child
and if you are blessed
many many more
you will know them as an adult.
Drink it in
if you can
drink them in.
Donna Ashworth
From Wild Hope
Finally, I’m reposting a link to a previous blog, the 2020 ‘Covid’ Summer Solstice Blog as this June’s solstice passed in a drizzly, damp anti climax, and it is good to look back on a very tough time for so many of us.
https://wordpress.com/post/findmywhy.blog/912
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