Happy Summer Solstice!

I am feeling particularly underwhelmed by life at the moment, but felt the need to do something to acknowledge the importance of the day.  For four of the last five years, I have had a fire for 24 hours in recognition of the Solstice.  Over each of these years, it has been somewhat different.  At times it was more like a party, other times it was a more introspective affair.  Usually, it was some sort of hybrid of the two.

For the last 9 months, I have been living in Olympia.  I moved here to go back to school and the cost of doing so was near total loss of my social life.  So, this Solstice I am at home alone with no one to celebrate with.  I am, perhaps, the loneliest that I have ever been in my life.  It is hard to muster the energy of celebration.

That said, the Solstice is still something worthy of celebration and I hope everyone out there who cares about such things is doing something special.  It is thundering and lightning here; a rare treat. As the sun went down this evening, the fast moving clouds seemed to catch fire, the whole sky varying shades of orange and pink.  There was even a rainbow.  For the first time since 1967 and the last time until 2062, the Solstice moon is full.  A special treat.  It is also the strawberry moon, which is the Algonquin name for June's full moon.  It is the height of strawberry harvesting time.

I will take this as a sign, that things are growing ripe in my life and should be bursting with sweetness soon!  If anyone happens to read this, I hope this prediction applies to you too.

Happy Summer Solstice.

!!!!!!gET TURNt-------gET WOKe!!!!!!

More from Mr. Watts.

a dawn chorus

It is June 8th, 2016.  It is 4:34 AM.  It is still dark but the birds are already welcoming the day.  Such optimism.  The Sun has yet to rise but the birds are singing their hearts out; a daily ritual of faith.  Not faith in god but faith that the earth will continue on its long established course. Faith that the Earth will continue to provide refuge from the cold expanse that surrounds us all.

Eloquent words on death.

For the last few years of my life, death has been a subject of great interest to me.  The ways in which we are taught (or not taught) to think of death in Western culture is, at least in my opinion, unhealthy. I came across these wonderful videos of lectures given by Alan Watts on the subject of death.  These words speak to my own feelings but I am not yet eloquent enough in my philosophy to express myself as well as Mr. Watts does.  Death is natural.  Death is right.  Death is liberation.