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| Solstice on Moosehead Lake |
My wife and do not chose to
celebrate holidays – commemorative days designated by someone else. We do celebrate the four seasons: Winter
Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox. We also hold special each other’s birthdays
and our anniversary.
We are approaching Summer
Solstice. The days have gotten longer
throughout winter and spring. After the
darkness and late snows of winter, extended daylight is always welcome. However the extended daylight also brings
with it the approach of summer, and summer is our least favorite time of
year.
We are not people who enjoy
the heat – my wife is fair; and of course summer in Maine
With the start of Summer Solstice
the days will begin to shorten, and we count the time as we move toward fall,
noting each day the number of minutes of waning daylight.
Unlike Christmas and Easter
and Thanksgiving etc. the sun phases have actually regulated our life until the
recent century. Now cell phones and
I-pads and computers – technology – has removed us from dependence on, and
consciousness of the seasons. We are a
frivolous and self absorbed species and have at last separated ourselves from
nature.
Fresh crops are grown in
foreign lands and shipped to supermarkets year around. We air condition our houses in summer, heat
them in winter with climate controlled furnaces and light our homes with
electricity. Time and seasons mean
little to us: even ski resorts produce their own snow.
We are the last generation
that will remember a time when seasonal changes regulated our existence.
It is a new technological world
and I don’t belong; but in homage to nature my wife and I will continue to
celebrate the points of seasonal changes.
A blessing from Goddess
Nature
A Happy Solstice
It is a special time
the Ol’Buzzard
