Tag: June

The Solstice: So lift your face to the Sun…

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For centuries, people have gathered
to honor this longest day—
Celtic people lit hilltop fires,
and Slavic communities wove flower crowns,
leapt over bonfires, and floated wreaths
down rivers to honor love, light, and life’s turning.
The Summer Solstice is no ordinary day—
it is a threshold between seasons,
a celebration of the earth at her peak of light.
Let this be your moment to honor all
that has grown within you—
dreams tended in quiet,
wounds turned into wisdom,
love that kept showing up.
The Solstice teaches us not just
to feel the warmth on your skin,
but in your soul and to stand in our radiance—
fully, gently, without apology.
So lift your face to the Sun,
feel the pulse of life in your chest,
and remember:
you, too, are part of this sacred rhythm of the world.
A Soul blooming in time with the turning Earth.

— Holly Sierra, Rivers in the Ocean (FB, June 20, 2025)

Notes:

  • DK Photo @ 5:43 a.m. this morning. See more photos from this morning’s walk at Cove Island Park here.
  • Thank you Make Believe Boutique for sharing the post.

Light Child, Lightly.

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I want to talk about happiness and well-being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent and you feel at one with the world. I want to talk about the early June weather, about harmony and blissful repose, about robins and yellow finches and bluebirds darting past the green leaves of trees.

I want to talk about the benefits of sleep, about the pleasures of food and alcohol, about what happens to your mind when you step into the light of the two o’clock sun and feel the warm embrace of air around your body.

— Paul Auster, (1947-2024) from “The Brooklyn Follies“

Notes:

  • Thursday Posts inspired by Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
  • Portrait: The Guardian

Sunday Morning

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leave me alone. let me soak in the first few days of june. let the birds wake me up as they sing a song and let the rays of sun slowly creep in through my blinds. let me rest. let me simmer in my thoughts. the months are passing us by fast. it is june and i want to savour it.

— aisha

Notes:

  • Additional photos from this morning’s daybreak walk at Cove Island Park here.
  • Thank you Sawsan for sharing quote.

Lightly Child, Lightly.

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It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Notes:

  • Quote: Thank you Kurt via Cultural Offering
  • DK Photo @ Cove Island Park this morning. More photo’s here and here.
  • Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

Lightly Child, Lightly.

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You will live many more years. Many more, in fact, than anyone would have predicted for you. You will read—and sometimes even understand—Nietzsche and Heidegger and Aristotle and Confucius and a bunch of other great thinkers, trying to make some sense out of your world. But you often think that you have never heard a better philosophy than what Mary says that night, drunk on her back porch: It’s the bad parts that make you realize how good the great parts are.

— Rob Roberge, Liar: A Memoir (Crown, February 9, 2016) 

Notes:

  • Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”