The Solstice: So lift your face to the Sun…

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.

Now. Summer 2014. June 21. 6:51 a.m. EDT.

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It’s a memory I’ve hoarded for twenty-odd years
and still claim in moments of déjà vu when time stops,
its seed case cracks open, as a storm cracks open,

a whole summer happens in one hour, and I know again
what Plato’s paradise of souls awaiting rebirth is made of:

birdsong, thunder, green, cicadas, and heat.

— Margaret Holley, from “Walking Through the Horizon


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