June 20, 2000Sweet and Stinky, Summer ArrivesEven as I’m working on this post, the Summer Solstice is occurring.Usually, it’s on the 21st, but Leap Year throws things off a bit, in the course of making its correction. This year, the Solstice is at 9:46 PM, EDT, so the 21st remains the first day of Summer. Many Traditional cultures begin the day at sunset, a marker more concrete, in its way, than the abstraction of midnight, which seldom really marks the mid point of the darkness. As with Christmas, the celebration has slipped a few days from the exact time of the Solstice. June the 24th is Traditionally Midsummer, the half-way point of the year. We don’t make much of the occasion, saving our Summer holidaying for the 4th of July. I meant to have more of a post together, but Summer is the season of laziness, so I don’t. I’m not talking about the constrictive, hibernating laziness of Winter; this is expansive laziness; relaxation to the point of liquidity. Lie back, breathe deep, and...smell? Oh yes, Summer has many odors... |
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