Special Day

A very happy Shasta
on this Summer Solstice
and 2021 Father's Day

A bit tardy with this post. We have been celebrating the very first Father's Day Dwight has had both of his two daughters with him since I have known him (34 years). And of course, Mike, Katie's husband, joined us to Shasta's delight since he is one of her very favorite humans in the whole wide world.

 Dwight and Leigh put together the swing frame

over the previous day. And we found just the right spot

for it in the corner of the backyard.

Above is daughter Katie, Dwight and 

daughter Leigh enjoying the swing.

Mike in the back

Katie, Dwight, Cathie

Shasta in the front.

Leigh playing with Shasta's ears.
All are just so happy to BE together!

Once Shasta could rouse herself

from enjoying the cool slate of the 

back patio, she found the zinnia leaves 

make for a very tasty snack.

The summer solstice is the time of greatest light. 

It is a day of enormous power. 

The whole planet is turned 

fully to the brilliance of the sun.

The great culmination is not static or permanent.

Indeed, solstice as a time of culmination 

is only a barely perceptible point. 

The sun appears to stand still.

Its diurnal motion seems to nearly cease.

Yesterday, it was still reaching this point,

tomorrow, it will begin a new phase of its cycle.”

Some “celebrate this day to remind themselves 

of the cycles of existence.

They remember that all cycles 

have a left and a right,

an up side and down side,

a zenith and a nadir.

. . . All of life is cycles.

All of live is balance.

So celebrate . . .”

365 Tao: Daily Meditations, Deng Ming-Dao

Bright purple seed pods
of the evergreen perennial (Dianella tasmanica),
along the West side of the walkway 
from the front to the back of our house.
Two of the plants will go to Katie.
All the remaining are earmarked for the yard waste bin
UNLESS someone locally reading this wants 1? 2? or ?

As we all celebrate cycles, balance and this glorious day of the greatest light, may we