Dawn-Lyen Gardner Instagram – Rest is our birthright, and a necessity to ensure we keep going ❤️ Reposting the always healing words and art by @morganharpernichols • for the tired one, in summer: summer after summer, you’ve been fighting to breathe under the hot light of anger, the downpour of grief, and the humidity-lined questions that rise up in between. it’s hard to think in the heat, especially when you can’t see beyond the trees, the swamp is up to your knees, (and the landscape is not what it seemed… is this really what June, July, and August intended for this space to be?) it’s beginning to seem like this season is set on relentless othering: carving lines in thunder and rain, setting calm, blue skies aflame, and on the ground, love gets lost in the gaps of fences’ frames. it’s starting to look like summer is someone else’s game. a game that breaks into war at night. a game you’re much too tired to fight. you long for softer light… your rest is long overdue. -Morgan Harper Nichols