Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns… Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

       – EF Schumacher

On this solstice day, let’s give thanks for the glories of our planet and for our sun that shines upon us – the ingredient that allows the acorn to become an oak.

On this Father’s Day, let’s give thanks for the humans who do the exact same thing.

Dear ones, let us sprout and grow and thrive and shelter and nourish the next acorns in turn.