Name what sustains you
June 2026
"Thanks and praises and Glory be to You, God, and to your Holy Good Mother for your gifts and graces to me all this day and night." - from a folk prayer in the Schools' Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD.
June is the month when the year's growth becomes something you can actually see, with the gardens filling out, the hedgerows thick, the light long enough to get real work done in the evenings.
It's easy rush past all of that toward whatever comes next, when the steadier thing is to stop and take stock of what's already feeding your life right now, and in the old farming year this was the stretch when you could finally trust that the season would provide, though nobody took that provision for granted.
The folk prayers collected from people all over Ireland are full of plain thanks for daily provision, the gifts and graces of the day named out loud rather than assumed.
That naming was practical rather than pious, because a household that noticed what sustained it was a household that tended those things and didn't let them slip, so when you say thanks for what feeds you, you're also marking what you can't afford to lose, and that's the first step in keeping it.
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