Chant For The Midsummer Solstice

[poliphilo]

Chant For the Midsummer Solstice

The sun stands still in the height of heaven,
All things must pass away

The days of summer stretch ahead,
All things must pass away

Welcome the days of flowers and fruit,
All things must pass away.

Welcome the days of leisure and love,
All things must pass away.

Now is the wedding of earth and heaven,
All things must pass away.

Comments

[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

And here it's the other way round.

I have mixed feelings about this: I used to hate winter, but summer is the hard time now.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Because of your disability?

[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

In some ways: it's certainly easier to keep warm than cool, but it's also that our summers have become so much hotter, our heatwaves more extreme. Summer is the time I feel under siege.

And it's an El Nino year coming up, which means drought. :/

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Global warming then. Yes, we're feeling it too.