Somewhere along the way, summer stopped being a season and started being a performance. There's pressure to travel, to be outside, to make memories, to say yes to every invitation and somehow have the best summer ever.

Emma Sullivan Ebley joins me for the third installment of our seasonal series on creative rituals to talk about what nature can teach us about doing summer differently. We get into why the season invites joy, play, and savoring instead of constant striving, how creativity helps keep us present, and why something as simple as drawing a tomato or chasing the memory of an ice cream truck might reconnect us with parts of ourselves that got left behind somewhere along the way.

Topics Covered:

• Why summer has "incredible PR" and how that quietly turns a season of rest into a performance.
• What nature's slow, staggered ripening has to teach about pacing instead of chasing the perfect summer.
• The difference between creative fire that energizes and creative fire that burns out.
• How play expands what the nervous system can actually hold, and why that doesn't stop mattering after childhood.
• A simple timed drawing practice for slowing down and really tasting what's in front of us.
• Why giving ourselves permission to play without making anything can feel so uncomfortable, and why that discomfort is normal.
• What the pattern across all three seasons of this series reveals about creativity as a companion, not a project.

Connect with Emma!
Grab the summer workbook (Summer Bounty: A Guided Art Journey for Nourishing Delight) https://emmasullivan.art/shop
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