In Her Nature - Summer

“In Her Nature: Summer” continues the soul-stirring seasonal series, capturing one woman’s expanded relationship with the natural world as the year reaches its brightest, most demanding peak. This intimate summer journal chronicles the author’s journey through abundance and acceptance. From the longest day’s golden light to August’s humbling heat, from mountain summits in Africa to the garden’s necessary dormancy. Each weekly entry celebrates summer’s essential paradoxes: the fullness that whispers goodbye, the strength discovered in stillness, and the profound courage required to love what cannot last. With lyrical wisdom and unflinching honesty, these summer chapters reveal how nature’s peak teaches us about our own capacity for both extraordinary effort and necessary rest. Readers will find inspiration in hummingbirds fiercely defending salvias they'll soon abandon, wisdom in bees choosing survival over honey during brutal heat, and grace in the body’s unexpected ability to climb mountains after breaking. From the Great Migration’s ancient rhythms to backyard observations of Russian sage surviving impossible conditions, each reflection illuminates what it means to hold both triumph and surrender. Building on winter’s introspection and spring’s emergence, summer brings themes of endurance, acceptance, paradox, and the intelligence of knowing when to soar and when to simply survive. The season asks us to prove two things: that we're capable of far more than we believe, and that we're wise enough to do far less than we want. Each entry balances naturalist observation with deeply personal revelation, weaving together the honest reckoning with loss that August's heat demands. As the third installment in this transformative year-long journey, “In Her Nature: Summer” stands powerfully alone while continuing the larger arc of seasonal healing. By year’s end, these collections will unite in a complete volume tracing the full cycle of one woman’s return to wholeness through nature's rhythms. This book calls to anyone who has stood at the height of things and felt the weight of light, who has learned that survival itself can be a form of flourishing, or who needs permission to rest as deeply as they strive. It reminds us that like the earth itself, we contain multitudes – the capacity for both mountain summits and dormant gardens, both fierce devotion and willing release. View Less