Slowness and Summer

Leaning into Leisure

I drew this a few weeks back. There’s a bench towards the back of the property, next to a tiny pond that a handful of frogs and some water hyacinth call home. And daily I look at that bench and think, “Wouldn’t it be grand to sit here for a bit and draw.” And on the daily, I breeze by to hang up laundry or pay bills, because there are Things That Need t…