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Solstice Blessings! 

12/21/2015

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photo by Alex Chemer
Photo of a Northern CA woodland by my father, Alex Chemerisov


We are tipped away from the sun
here in the north. 
While the southern hemisphere hovers closer…


Solstice energy
in the balance.
In the long night here. 
In the long day there. 


I used to celebrate this magic
halfway. 
Mainly aware of my dome of the earth, 
a sense of “up,” a notion of “top,” a realm of 
elevated latitudes 
which are not really “up” at all. 
They are just half - 
and the world “down south” is another half. 
Together they form a wobbly sphere
in all its chaotic majesty. 


It whirls itself by a force of elegant nature
and holds us to it
with a magnetic pull 
like unconditional love…
As much as we plunder the lands, the waters, the ethers, 
Earth’s gravity does not let us go. 


Thank you, world of colors, elements, sounds, creatures…
you are our ground. 
I hate to ask you for more, 
but please help us 
grow better at 
holding
being
expressing
your light. 


​Happy Solstice!
In stretches of nighttime dreaming…
in expanses of daytime becoming.
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