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In honor of the Summer Solstice, here are some suggestions of how to spend a summer day.<\/p>\n
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If the temperature is comfortable where you are, get a lounge chair or spread a sheet out on the lawn (if you\u2019re in the country) or sand (if you\u2019re at the shore.)\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Lie for a while on your back and gaze at the clouds in the sky or at the leaves of the trees.\u00a0 <\/span>If you get sleepy, turn over, cradle your head on your arms, and let yourself doze.<\/p>\n When you wake up, if you want, read a really good book.\u00a0 <\/span>Drink lots of lemonade or iced tea or ice water.\u00a0 <\/span>If you get too hot, find some water \u2013 walk into the ocean or a cool stream, or dangle your feet in a pool, or run under a sprinkler.<\/p>\n When you get hungry, make yourself a picnic.\u00a0 <\/span>Make sure you have some grapes or watermelon or some other kind of fruit.\u00a0 <\/span>If it\u2019s juicy, don\u2019t mind if it drips down your chin.<\/p>\n Absolutely stay outside as it begins to get dark.\u00a0 <\/span>Enjoy the sound of the crickets and tree frogs if you\u2019re somewhere green, the waves if you\u2019re near the ocean, or the coyotes if you\u2019re in the desert.\u00a0 <\/span>If you\u2019re lucky enough to be where there are fireflies (lightning bugs,) let yourself see them wherever they appear.\u00a0 <\/span>Practice letting your peripheral vision notice them, too.\u00a0 <\/span>Notice that they\u2019re near the ground in the early evening, and then they\u2019re higher in the air and in the trees.\u00a0 <\/span>Some blink once and some blink twice.\u00a0 <\/span>Do some blink three times?\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe.\u00a0 <\/span>The ones up at the top of the trees start to blend in with the stars.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n The moon is high in the sky.\u00a0 <\/span>Isn\u2019t she beautiful?\u00a0 <\/span>She is full and there is a lovely glow around her.\u00a0 <\/span>She smiles down upon the Earth like a grandmother who loves all her children and grandchildren \u2013 the good ones and the bad ones, the loud ones and the quiet ones, the smart ones and the not-so-smart ones.\u00a0 <\/span>She loves all her blessed children.<\/p>\n It has been a beautiful day.\u00a0 <\/span>And now it is a beautiful night.<\/p>\n The world turns, and it is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In honor of the Summer Solstice, here are some suggestions of how to spend a summer day. If the temperature is comfortable where you are, get a lounge chair or spread a sheet out on the lawn (if you\u2019re in the country) or sand (if you\u2019re at the shore.)\u00a0\u00a0 Lie for a while on your…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,3,133,153,60,154,65,30,112,121,97,47,150,151,66,152,134,54,104,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-blessings","category-earth","category-fireflies","category-green","category-lightning-bugs","category-moon","category-nature","category-ocean","category-outdoors","category-relax","category-rest","category-shore","category-solstice","category-stars","category-summer","category-sun","category-the-earth","category-water","category-waves"],"yoast_head":"\n