the rix mix

It seems fitting that fireflies emerge around summer solstice. Today Persephone reaches the upward limit of her annual roundtrip between Hades in the underworld & her mother Demeter in the world illuminated by Helios. A good day to eat a pomegranate in honor of the goddess - well, maybe only drink the juice; for some reason, Hades was able to make Persephone his queen by tricking her into eating six pomegranate seeds.

A crowd of 17,000 showed up at Stonehenge for an "unspectacular" sunrise. It's also Shakespeare's Midsummer Night, a perfect play to see performed in a park at dusk. & there's even a play within the play.
For never anything can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it.

Labels: holidays