A-conjuring Summer in

[sovay]

Happy solstice! We made our offerings to the shortest night and the growing moon in its halo of heat-haze; there are fireflies in the yards here, little stars winking, falling. We carry this light the whole year through. May it be a year when we don't need to hold it quite so hard.

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[selkie]

We are good, we are flawed, we are the breath of an imperfect god.

*hugs* A better year.

[sovay]

A better year.

Amen.

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

We had our two not-living-in-Japan children over for a meal, plus the significant other of one of them. It was great to be able to be in the same room together without the shadow of the fear of death hanging over us. (And wow, that's (a) and understatement and (b) a sentence that two years ago I could not have conceived of typing.)

Fireflies are one of the truly best things about early summer.

[sovay]

(And wow, that's (a) and understatement and (b) a sentence that two years ago I could not have conceived of typing.)

It is a strange thing to have learned how to say. I am glad you are here to say it.

Fireflies are one of the truly best things about early summer.

They were pointed out to me the first night I was here! I associate them with open fields more than with suburban neighborhoods. They're lovely just to see floating on and off.

[gwynnega]

Happy solstice!

[sovay]

Happy solstice!

It is a blazingly summery day for it here, too.

[cyphomandra]

Happy solstice from the flip side! We get a whole extra second of daylight today, which is very exciting.

[sovay]

Happy solstice from the flip side! We get a whole extra second of daylight today, which is very exciting.

Thank you! May it have been a very good second and a harbinger of more to come!

[radiantfracture]

May it be so!

I've never seen a firefly, but one day. One day.

[sovay]

May it be so!

*hugs*

I've never seen a firefly, but one day. One day.

All kinds of light will find you.

[pameladean]

So say we all, a better year.

I am so happy you saw fireflies. I'm hoping for them in the yard, which is completely overgrown in back, an atmosphere that in other years has produced quite a crop. But we've been having a drought, and I'm not sure how much they like that.

P.

[sovay]

So say we all, a better year.

Amen.

I am so happy you saw fireflies.

Thank you! I hadn't expected them from this trip at all.

I'm hoping for them in the yard, which is completely overgrown in back, an atmosphere that in other years has produced quite a crop. But we've been having a drought, and I'm not sure how much they like that.

I hope yours return. I don't think most things like drought, except for whatever you don't want more of.

[nineweaving]

Fireflies! I miss them.

Wishing you joy at the sun's turning.

Nine

[sovay]

Fireflies! I miss them.

May they find you under the trees of Harvard Yard.

Wishing you joy at the sun's turning.

To you, too.

[thawrecka]

That's a hope I can get behind.

[sovay]

That's a hope I can get behind.

*solidarity hugs*