Summer Solstice

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

Longest daylight hours and shortest night time hours of year today for most of Earth.

I see today not to celebrate ..as many do .. but as days get shorter now I ask myself ..? don’t know how to mentally prepare for another long brutal winter.

[HitmanParticipant]

hmskl’d wrote:

don’t know how to mentally prepare for another long brutal winter.

it’s SUMMER solstice,
just enjoy the summer.
don’t look so far ahead.
or you will ruin NOW for yourself.

remember,
if you have one foot in yesterday,
and the other foot in tomorrow,
you wind up P~~~ING ALL OVER TODAY.
.. just be in the moment,
beach season is beginning!!!

[Anonymous 5]

For those that grow their private stash, it’s time to start looking around for a discrete spot to fertilise and de-snail in anticipation of an Ides of March celebration. (We harvest here in March)

Despite all the people participating in the solstice ceremonies at Stonehenge today, they now know that Stonehenge was built to celebrate the Winter Solstice in December. The plea to bring back the sun.
Still, any excuse for a party!

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

Anonymous wrote:

Still, any excuse for a party!

Yes, I’m not a big party person .. although I might start 4th early and shoot a few packs of whistling bottle rockets and a couple of 12 shot cakes .. this weekend and watch in evening from my hammock. I built little firing panel so I can lie back and watch. I do fireworks only after a rainstorm so I don’t ignite the whole field. Have a new Catherine Wheel. Vry rlxing to watch fwx that way.

Hitman wrote:

don’t look so far ahead.
or you will ruin NOW for yourself.

Exactly, it’s so true and the way I should go .. I just always have a small voice in my head that says .. things around me are fragile and Mother Nature might rear her angry head when I least expect it. Last winter I went through almost 400 pounds of road salt – eight fifty pound bags – just getting out of my road after one single storm. That thought gets scary. However .. that amount of ice has only happened once in past five years. maybe, this winter will be abnormally warm .. I’ll think that way. Thnx.

[HitmanParticipant]

hey brother,
check the advice the men gave me on the thread i started tonight…
it could work for you as well..
it really is for every human being..
fear leads to suffering…
have to let go

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

Hitman wrote:

fear leads to suffering…

My main fear is Mother Nature .. she can be very cruel to those of us in far north, she can paint a beautiful sunset..
yet, I know she has no mercy .. I have faith that I have “almost” every contingency covered “almost is not perfect but better than before” .. so she has less power over me these days. She has come close to getting me a couple of times once when I was young and fell though ice .. and later years with lightning strike.
Each storm, each event, each ferocious tantrum she throws mainly during winter .. I am a little more prepared for whatever she hits me with. The woodpile is almost ready .. along with the wood stove.

[Gravel PitParticipant]

hmskl’d wrote:

and later years with lightning strike.

Were you actually struck or nearly? Jeez man.

[GregB0Participant]

hmskl’d wrote:

I see today not to celebrate .

Every day is a good day, as long as you continue to have a decent quality of life.

Long days or short, be thankful for being alive and don’t sweat the small stuff.

Small stuff obscures your vision of those few things that are truly important in life.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[It’sallbsParticipant]

GregB0 wrote:

don’t sweat the small stuff.

Only fight the battles worth fighting.

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

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