Summer Solstice

It’s here…

The longest day of the year celebrated throughout history by almost all know peoples. It is also known as Midsummer, Litha, Alban Heflin, Alben Heruin, All-couples day, Feast of Epona, Feast of St. John the Baptist, Feill-Sheathain, Gathering Day, Johannistag, Litha, Sonnwend, Thing-Tide, Vestalia.

The long winter is over, the crops are growing. Succulent apricots, peaches, nectarines and melons fill the markets.

People are looking forward to holidays.

Throughout Europe the Feast of St. Jean will be celebrated with bonfires and flares. People are gathering at Stonehenge to watch the way the sun hits the stones.

For me, it is a reminder that the sun, planet and nature are far more powerful than whatever we silly humans do in our nanosecond of a nanosecond of a nanosecond of existence in comparison to the length of time of what all around us has existed is existing and will continue to exist long after our species had disappeared.

I will celebrate being allowed to have that nanosecond of a nanosecond of a nanosecond on this earth. To me this is the joy of the solstice.