Wherever we are in the world, one natural constant is the same for us all: the ever-changing moon. That's why I like to plan my creative work around its phases.

At the moment, we're moving through the waxing of the Flower Moon towards the new Strawberry moon on the 15th and then on the 21st, the solstice—that beautiful word that means sun, standing still. For us in the northern hemisphere, that means the magic and mystery of midsummer.

The middle month of the year is a good time for us to pause too. Half the year behind us, half ahead. The creative life is sometimes a straight line from resolution to result but it's also, always, a cycle.

Always the turning and the returning. Always the chance to begin anew.