The Maine Humanities office will be closed the month of July
Our team here at Maine Humanities is taking the month of July to truly slow down. We are taking the month as a time of rest, respite, and sabbatical.
Like many of you, the past few years have been full of intense highs and lows – a simultaneity of devastating and breathtaking moments. We work and live in a culture that often moves too fast for us to pause, reflect, and readjust. At Maine Humanities, we have realized that keeping this constant pace does not help us do our best work. We need space to reset our brains and our bodies so that we can return to our work and our partnerships with clearer minds and hearts.
You were not just born to center your entire existence on work and labor. You were born to heal, to grow, to be of service to yourself and community, to practice, to experiment, to create, to have space, to dream, and to connect.”
– TRICIA HERSEY
To this end, our offices will be closed for the month of July. We are not the first non-profit to adopt a sabbatical month. In fact, we are taking our inspiration from other non-profits we work with and are inspired by here in Maine. We are grateful to Wabanaki REACH for sharing these words about their own organization-wide sabbatical: “How many of us have spent countless hours staring into our computers with back-to-back meetings, events, and obligations? Scheduling and rescheduling? This type of stress gets trapped in our bodies and we need time to unplug and to just ‘be.’”
After taking the month of July to “unplug and just be,” we will enthusiastically resume our work at the beginning of August. If you have been eyeing our Read ME program and our July opening date for our Mini Grants application, please know that the Read ME program will continue through the summer months, including July, and our Mini Grants will be opening in July, as planned. If you are a current program partner and you have questions about the status of your particular program, please get in touch with your designated program staff.