July 22, 2022 — As much as I’ve always loved the sun, it feels like she’s being indefensibly brutal these days. I carry my game-changing new sunbrella on our dog walks during the heat of the day and still rush back in to the AC feeling like someone who’s been dragged down and out of a burning building. Ah, but, “How fortunate you are to live in a building. To have healthy legs to carry you back up those stairs. To have working AC. To have clean, cold water. Not to mention that blessing of a sea breeze.”

Last fall, not realizing we already had the sun in our Meanings of Life line, Cardie Penny Schiller proposed the great message, “‘The sun is the source of light and heat that makes flowers bloom and kisses our skin with warmth. It is our most treasured star.’ Inside: ‘And you are mine.’”

Another sun lover, NASA says, “The Sun can influence Earth’s climate, but it isn’t responsible for the warming trend we’ve seen. The Sun is a giver of life; it helps keep the planet warm enough for us to survive. The current scientific consensus is that long and short-term variations in solar activity play only a very small role in Earth’s climate. Warming from increased levels of human-produced greenhouse gases is actually many times stronger than any effects due to solar activity.”

So all week, in the back of my mind, a favorite poem played. Contributing Cardie Rachel Glik wrote beautifully about her thoughts on a sunny day two decades ago now. I share it with you here thinking, we can either bemoan this heat wave, or get more serious about doing our part to address climate change. Let’s do all we can so the beloved son Rachel wrote about on that long-ago summer day — so all of us — can enjoy this treasured Earth for decades to come.

All is well. All is well. All is well.

Jodee Stevens
Founder & Chief Creative

July 22, 2022 — As much as I’ve always loved the sun, it feels like she’s being indefensibly brutal these days. I carry my game-changing new sunbrella on our dog walks during the heat of the day and still rush back in to the AC feeling like someone who’s been dragged down and out of a burning building. Ah, but, “How fortunate you are to live in a building. To have healthy legs to carry you back up those stairs. To have working AC. To have clean, cold water. Not to mention that blessing of a sea breeze.”

Last fall, not realizing we already had the sun in our Meanings of Life line, Cardie Penny Schiller proposed the great message, “‘The sun is the source of light and heat that makes flowers bloom and kisses our skin with warmth. It is our most treasured star.’ Inside: ‘And you are mine.’”

Another sun lover, NASA says, “The Sun can influence Earth’s climate, but it isn’t responsible for the warming trend we’ve seen. The Sun is a giver of life; it helps keep the planet warm enough for us to survive. The current scientific consensus is that long and short-term variations in solar activity play only a very small role in Earth’s climate. Warming from increased levels of human-produced greenhouse gases is actually many times stronger than any effects due to solar activity.”

So all week, in the back of my mind, a favorite poem played. Contributing Cardie Rachel Glik wrote beautifully about her thoughts on a sunny day two decades ago now. I share it with you here thinking, we can either bemoan this heat wave, or get more serious about doing our part to address climate change. Let’s do all we can so the beloved son Rachel wrote about on that long-ago summer day — so all of us — can enjoy this treasured Earth for decades to come.

All is well. All is well. All is well.

Jodee Stevens
Founder & Chief Creative