Summer Solstice

Midsummer Daydream. By the French Revolutionary Calendar, Tridi: décade 28 : Messidor / Harvest (mois d'été): Year CCXIX / 219 -- like a fallen clock in the forest of the past, still ticking away though few still know it. The month of Thermidor is just up the pathway.

With each season, we peoples must go with the flow and adjust accordingly. But for the most part, the life cycle continues as before. Denis Diderot put it both philosophically and pragmatically about 250 years ago: "The world begins and ends without cease . . . There is nothing dependable but drinking, eating, living, loving, and sleeping."   (Philipp Blom, A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment, New York: Basic Books, 2010, page 61). And in the summertime if one is lucky, maybe a nice siesta and a swim.

Today's Rune: Separation (Reversed).