Blessed Midsummer! I recently returned from a solitary writer's retreat in Ocean Beach, California. It was a gift I gave myself as part of a year's circle and retreat work on self-love and pleasure where I found that I was teaching what I most needed to learn (sound familiar?!) . I was the worst student, the unmothered child, but now I am catching up. How? By taking a sacred pause from my life to nurture my soul. Solstices, Equinoxes, all Earth Holy Days are portals of oppor
