Blessed Summer Solstice, everyone!

[vulgarweed]

The dawn here is beautiful right now. Let me abuse R.E.M.: "It's a Maxfield Parrish sky / Let me show you what I can do with it..."

I'm a nocturnal person with an evening job: I only ever see sunrises when I'm awake already and I always take them as a sign it's time to go to sleep. (Like now.) The night is short; it will soon be long. The day is long; it will soon be short.

I don't read positive/negative into either of those things, and I don't like day = good, night = bad imagery AT ALL.

Solstices are extremes. Equinoxes are balance. We need both - and we also need temporal diversity.

Comments

[lady-of-clunn.livejournal.com]

Blessed Solstice!

I love the change of the seasons, I think I would be useless living near the equator.

Strangely, Beltane was a much bigger deal here than Solstice, with days and days of celebrations and events. Maybe next year I'll get a babysitter and go up on Calton Hill for the fires.

[orpheus-samhain.livejournal.com]

I am/was a nocturnal person but for a few years I've noticed that lack of sunlight makes me depressed, or more precisely makes my depression worse. But I still like the night, only I need long days :)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

To you too.

The change of the seasons is really important to me too. My mother is from northeastern Brazil not too far from the equator, and as beautiful as it is there, I just couldn't cope with that for very long. I need all four seasons!

I'd love to live in a place with big bonfires and celebrations. Some day!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It can have that effect on me too. I remember one year, when I'd first moved to Chicago, when I lived in an apartment that got no sunlight anyway - and it was an unusually dark, cloudy winter even by Chicago standards. We had like three sunny days between Halloween and Valentine's Day. I'm amazed my roommates and I made it through that one.