Slightly delayed by a bit over a week: I hope all who celebrate the Summer Solstice in some way had a good time!
And belatedly to you! Summer Solstice is always bittersweet for us — we recall the 'gatherings' at which my pagan father-in-law used to celebrate the event. In the end they wee mini-festivals, with about 3-400 people attending, local bands played, a local troupe put on plays, the local pub keep the beer flowing ... there was a ceremony to the spirits, the firing of the burning arrow into a sunwheel, fireworks, a procession round a maze, songs round the campfire ... my daughters grew up with them, and we let them 'do their own thing', and the memories are all rather special.
Ah, summer - Trips to the beach.... Maybe not such a good idea. Ah summer - Sightseeing in an exciting city.... Maybe next year. Ah summer - Journeys up into the mountains.... Probably safer to stay at home. Ah, summer. With apologies to Gershwin - Summertime and the livin’ ain’t easy!
Summer Solstice is once again upon us, it will be late tomorrow night here where I am, I expect it will be very early Monday morning for our European friends.
At about 8:30 pm Pacific Time today 20 June, 2021 is the solstice. Here is a little article on some of the sacred elements to this time: https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/47-97-8/4s-wtst.htm
I feel for you. Having none of my own, I enjoyed silence instead. Once in my life, a long time ago, I loved one and protected her, in many ways as if she were my own daughter. (She had lost her dad early in life.) Looking back, I always am worried whether I did the right thing or not. But I did love her, and I did what I thought was right at the time. She haunts me, always. The memory shatters me even now. I keep it buried most of the time, the memory of that little wanderer.
I have a daughter with 3 grandchildren from a previous relationship when I was 24. I haven't seen them for ~ 10 years now, despite them living only 8 miles away. I would never turn them away, but neither would I harrass them
Fathers.day I enjoyed... But solstice? Already? How did that happen? This old age life accelerating is wild!
