“If you want to be happy, be.”

~Leo Tolstoy

I need some being time, y’all.

It’s been a wordy summer, what with writing and collaborating on my secret work-in-progress (you’ll hear about it soon!), taking on a brand new writing partner (hi, beautiful!), participating in the fabulous, intensive Creativity Workshop hosted by Merrilee Faber, which has just ended, and trying to finish up the blog redesign with an internally-hyperlinking f.a.q. and a great post to kick off Project G.F.E.

Can you tell I have a tendency to take on too much sometimes?

In honor of my need to take care of myself and return to a space where I can “just be,” this month I’ll be taking the August break (and a big thank you to Susannah Conway for coming up with the idea and to Elizabeth Halt for passing along the word).  For the rest of the month, I’ll be posting a photo and a quote, or maybe a poem, or maybe a one-liner, or maybe no words at all.  Like I did on Tuesday, before I’d even heard of the idea.

There are a couple of posts that require writing during this last month of summer.  This blog’s one-year anniversary is approaching, and I can’t cover my feelings about that milestone in one line.  There’s also that guest post I signed up to write.  And I recently spent the afternoon doing a photo shoot at a local farmer’s shop for a post I’ve got in the works, all about eating locally and supporting small, family farms and exactly what is involved in greening up your food supply, for those who are interested.

But generally, The Enchanted Earth is going to become a very restful, gentle, minimalist space for the next 25 days.  To give me more free time for contemplation and gardening and living and getting to visit all your lovely blogs again for inspiration, I plan to turn off the comments on a certain percentage of the posts — and I hope you’ll understand that’s not because I don’t want to listen.

It’s just, I need to set a boundary, carve out a little space for me, to renew myself with solitude, to reconnect with my garden at the height of its summer glory, to allow inspiration to come and go with no respect to scheduled output, to let the quiet filter into even the teensiest little pockets of my soul.

So I’m going to do that.

I hope y’all will enjoy the August break here with me.  Who knows?  Maybe this little experiment will inspire one of you to carve out a little more space for your own Being, to make your own solitude and peace and connection with Nature a higher priority in your life.

No matter the outcome, though, I’ve just got to walk my talk.

Namasté, y’all.

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