Notes for the Month: June - On Arrival

There is a particular feeling that often appears at the beginning of June. Not because summer has fully arrived yet, but because you can sense it approaching.

The interesting thing about anticipation is that it changes our experience before anything actually happens. The trip hasn't started. The plans aren't fully formed. The long evenings and slower days are still ahead. Yet something already feels different.

We often think of change as something that happens when an event takes place. When we move, begin, finish, arrive, decide. But many changes begin much earlier than that. Sometimes they begin when we start imagining a different version of our days. Sometimes they begin when possibility enters the picture. Nothing external has shifted yet, but internally, we have already started making room for something new. June often feels like that kind of month.

There is more openness in the days. More willingness to make plans. More space to linger a little longer at the table or stay outside a little later than usual. The season itself hasn't fully arrived, but the rhythm of life has already started to adjust around it.

We've been thinking about this while watching Sentimental Value.

At its core, the film is concerned with memory, family, and the ways people find their way back to one another. What stayed with us most was the idea that some arrivals happen gradually. Long before reconciliation, understanding, or connection becomes visible, something begins to shift beneath the surface.

We've found ourselves noticing the same thing in everyday life.

The changes that matter most are often difficult to identify while they are happening. We only recognize them later, when we look back and realise that something had already started moving weeks or months before we noticed.

We've also been listening to Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings.

It is an album that rewards attention. Nothing feels rushed. Themes appear, evolve, and return. It reminds us that meaningful experiences don't always arrive all at once. Sometimes they unfold slowly, revealing themselves over time.

Listen to the album here.

Perhaps that is what this part of the year invites us to remember.

Not every transition announces itself clearly. Not every beginning arrives with certainty. Not every transition announces itself clearly. Not every beginning arrives with certainty.

Sometimes life changes through a series of small adjustments. A longer evening. A conversation about future plans. A growing sense of possibility. Taken individually, they seem insignificant. Together, they become a season.

If June feels like a month of anticipation, it may be because anticipation has its own value. It reminds us that there is something ahead to move towards. Something not fully visible yet, but close enough to begin shaping the present.

A few things to carry into June:

~ Let the evenings run long

~ Make the plans, even the uncertain ones

~ Leave room for the wandering

~ Notice the moment you stop rushing inside

Happy June -

where arrival begins long before you get there.

With care,

Prickly Pears Sisters 🌿

Bengisu & Nagehan

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For this month, we're holding a gentle intention close;

to trust what is approaching without rushing towards it, to leave space for possibility, and to appreciate the small shifts that often arrive before larger changes become visible.