Only two more days until the first day of summer…the longest day of the year!
I just finished Mark Helprin’s In Sunlight and In Shadow – what a great book! I enjoyed every one of the 658 pages – each and every paragraph is beautifully written. This passage on the summer solstice is particularly apropos as we head into the longest day…
“In the weeks before the solstice it was as if, moving at great speed toward maximum light, the world had a mind of its own. It clung to a reluctance that would slow it as the brightest days began to grow darker. It is perhaps this hesitation at the apogee that lightens the gravity of sorrows, such as they are, in luminous June evenings and on clear June days.”
What are your summer
plans? Mine include lots of relaxing days spent walking on the beach,
reading by the pool, dining al fresco and sipping umbrella drinks.
plans? Mine include lots of relaxing days spent walking on the beach,
reading by the pool, dining al fresco and sipping umbrella drinks.
And, leave it to the guys to also have Father’s Day just happen to fall on the longest day!
Happy Summer and Happy Father’s Day…wherever you may be wandering!
xoxo
And I want to try to stay up for the entire thing! YES I DO! Oh Sandy, we are back home to our own "Carmel" -like cottage and now for some gardening; the weeds grew while we were gone!
HAPPY ALMOST SUMMER! Anita
Beautiful excerpt. I love the solstice, but it also has an odd sadness to me. It seems strange in some ways that our summers begin on the longest day of the year and then the days get shorter as the summer goes on. There's some sort of poetry in that, I think.
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Happy Summer, Sandy! I always love the longest day of the year – especially with the knowledge that we have a ways to go until Seattle's superdark superearly winter evenings start spinning round. Hard to even think of that when it's light until 10pm. Your summer plans sound lovely. I'm hoping to finish off a few big projects in the next 2-3 weeks and then lighten my schedule a bit so that I can enjoy the season. We'll see! Hope you enjoy every moment of the long days of summer. XOXO
What?? Summer still hasn't started with all the humid hot days we have had so far:) I don't want to miss the longest day either….too bad they are calling for rain. Wishing you a wonderful weekend and Fathers Day for your husband.
Sandy,
I hope that you had a wonderful weekend and were out laying by the pool with an umbrella drink and a good book. I am having a fabulous summer already, lots of travel, time on the beach and with family and friends!
Have a great week my friend!
Xo Elizabeth
I have to admit, I've always loved being a Summer Solstice baby!!! It was a little tougher sharing it with all the dads this year, but it's always a lovely day. Now that I'm back from one trip, I'm all about nesting, reading great books, hanging out at the beach and sipping rose in the garden!!!
Happy Summer, my sweet friend!!
xoxo Elizabeth
Hope yours was a great on Sandy dear!