{"id":2491,"date":"2021-06-13T19:07:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T19:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2021-06-13T19:07:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T19:07:29","slug":"wintering-becomes-summering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wintering&#8221; becomes &#8220;Summering&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1261-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1261-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2492\" width=\"441\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1261-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1261-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1261-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1261-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1261-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWintering\u201d is a season turned verb that served us during lockdown.  During the 14-month hibernation, people proposed ways of thinking about dark days by developing a cool state of mind, lowering one&#8217;s emotional temperature so one could be nurtured by the reality of whatever comes, not what we create. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now comes \u201csummering.\u201d&nbsp; Only wealthy people \u201csummer,\u201d people have long cried!&nbsp; But the way we collectively re-verbed \u201cwinter\u201d is being done with summer too.&nbsp; We\u2019re&nbsp;seeking a summer of the mind, because we\u2019re still at home and time is moving on.&nbsp; Call it a return to lightness.&nbsp; The painters had their favorite spots for light \u2014 Provincetown, the south of France \u2014 yet on these cool, not-quite summer mornings light pours around a doorway in the house, streams through branches in the garden, becomes seamless in the sky.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Vibrations of color are equally ubiquitious.  The soft pink clay of the French Open tennis courts is sumptuous, filling the screen, floating like a painting shot with variations by Rothko.&nbsp; Into the fourth hour of the men\u2019s final, the pink clay becomes deeply musing, absorbing twilight and allowing bits of light to fringe the edges the field, suggesting  terracotta or crenelated rails of a medieval castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My grown kids wander in \u2014 leisurely, streaming with of an uncomplicated sense of ease.&nbsp; Voila lightness, joy, beauty!  We\u2019re getting a jump on the solstice, we\u2019re summering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWintering\u201d is a season turned verb that served us during lockdown. 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