Ways to take care:
Part six
CANCER SEASON EDITION:
ADVICE FOR THE SUMMER:
GO TO THE BEACH OR PARK, READ, AND DO A LOT OF NOTHING
( PREFERABLY IN THE SUN)
This past week I was listening to an episode of the podcast How to Be a Human where the host Anna Toonk did a tarot spread for the summer. My friend Vanessa Hardy is a recurring guest on their show who makes a quarterly appearance to talk about the upcoming seasons’ astrology.
This episode, Anna talked about how once it’s above 75 degrees they feel sort of ‘dumb until the fall’. I joked with Vanessa that this is the motto for the Summer.
Here’s a photo of me from a few weeks ago spraying Solar Recovery.
Solar Recovery is this incredible topical spray that I have been using since around 2008. It was created by tennis players in the desert who were getting roasted while playing in the desert sun and needed a remedy to combat sun exposure. It is very cooling to the skin after a long day out in the sun, and helps so much if you burn!
In Chinese Medicine the importance of eating warm, cooked foods is so incredibly important for a healthy digestive system. We should live in harmony with the seasons, so I have been adding in some cooling foods to combat what we call “Summerheat”. Watermelon also known as “Xi Gua” is considered an herb that falls under the category of ‘Herbs that clear heat and purge fire and/or clear Summerheat’. I have been enjoying cucumber salads and lots of watermelon after my beach days to help clear heat. I have been getting my watermelon from the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Watermelon is an energetically cooling food so I have been eating mine room temperature. My dog also LOVES watermelon.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
I finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow last week and immediately ordered it for my closest BFF’s. I had bought this book sometime last year and randomly picked it up a few weeks ago and started reading it on a whim and I am so incredibly happy that I did. It’s been a very long time since I enjoyed and devoured a book like this.
I’ve been listening to the new John Carroll Kirby record, Blowout. Blowout came out last week. I am also partial because its another record sleeve from JCK that my boyfriend, Justin Hunt Sloane designed. Here are the disc labels that Justin made for John Carroll Kirby’s record Septet that came out in 2021.
I am also the biggest fan of his record Meditations in Music.
Lately I have been re-watching favorite movies/ old shows, some of them that I haven’t seen in years.
I just pre-ordered Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
I also just pre-ordered this new this incredible record Pharoah by Pharoah Sanders from Luaka Bop. They are releasing a 2-LP Box set of the record. It is a re-release from 1977 as well as additional live recordings, coming out in mid September.
One of my closest friends Bonnie Andrus, a shoe designer in New York just released these Star Sandals :) All her shoes are handmade!
Dear friends Ceilidh MacLeod and Shun Kinoshita who run OEM- (On Earth Momentarily) recently released this shirt that Justin Sloane designed. They also make wonderful products and also run an education platform highlighting Japanese creatives, called b.Eautiful
I highly recommend reading Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov this Summer.
