The Long Saturday

June Saturdays are a different category of Saturday. The daylight is at its peak now — we’re two weeks from the longest day of the year — and a Saturday in June can genuinely feel like it has more hours in it than any other Saturday of the year.

I want you to use that today. Not in a productive, optimizing kind of way. In the old-fashioned way where you go outside and you’re out there for a long time. You lose track of what you were planning next. You sit somewhere until the sitting feels complete. You let the long light work on you the way long light does when you actually let it.

Maple is entirely prepared for this. She has been preparing for this specific Saturday her entire life. She would like me to note that the backyard is excellent today.

Go outside. Stay longer than planned. Let June do what June does.

A June Saturday has more hours in it than any other kind. Don’t spend them indoors.

Where’s a place you love being in summer that you haven’t been to yet this year?