June just might be my favorite month.
It is my birthday month. My Mom’s birthday month. And my granddaughter’s birthday is in June, too. There is the excitement of the school year ending, graduations, weddings, vacations, 4th of July just around the corner. June 20th is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year and the official first day of Summer. It is a time to start eating Summer fruits like berries and melons. And stone fruits, like plums and my favorite, peaches. It is a time for salads. Seafood. And barbecues. And let’s not forget drinks…Kool Aid, sun tea, lemonade, Summer Water…it is the season of Rosé. Cheers!
June has thirty days, but July and August both have thirty-one. So, that’s ninety-two days. From June 20th to September 22nd, the first day of Autumn, is also ninety-two days. Ninety-two days!! Either way, starting June 1st or June 20th, a perfect time to do a Hundred Day Project. The Hundred Day Project was started by a Yale graphic design professor who assigned his students to do a design everyday. Since the early 2000’s it has grown into a global community. The concept is simple, do something you love everyday for one-hundred days. It should be rather simple, less than ten minutes or so a day. Have faith in the collection that is created over time. Whether it is taking a photograph, doing a few stitches (needlepoint, cross-stitch, embroidery), doodling each day. Or learning a few new words of a foreign language. Or practicing an instrument. Or gardening. You get the idea. Building on your skills, growing a little each and every day. How can you make the world a more beautiful place this summer? Learn something new. Volunteer. Start a project. Finish a project. Fix something. Create something. Write your own Summer.
And in that spirit, a list of 92 Things To Do This Summer is coming.
Also, 100 Summer Journal Prompts.
Look for them at the top of the website under “Summer”.