Summer

<p><strong>Explore the rich vibrancy of summer and reflect on how nature teaches us to value time-in this collection of reflections by our greatest writers.</strong></p><p>A season of both growth and of stillness of hard work in the garden and of relaxing in the cool of the mountains summer is a celebratory time. Every day matters says summer. Look around you. Life is starting up again after a long winter and spring and we find ourselves in a world filled with creatures and plants and shimmers of heat on the subway with backyard cookouts and ice cream trucks jingling through the neighborhood.</p><p>This collection of powerful stirring pieces from a wealth of sources—ranging from poems composed in eighth-century China to letters from a pioneer woman in the American West from the Declaration of Independence to Ray Bradbury's musings on childhood summers—invites us all to fully experience the rich and bountiful spirituality of summer.</p>