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21 Jun 2011, 2:10 pm

The centre of the year.

How's it going?

Do any of you observe or celebrate the Solstice in any shape or form?

Enjoy the rest of the year. :heart: for everyone


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21 Jun 2011, 2:14 pm

I observe the Solstice.


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21 Jun 2011, 2:18 pm

Shall I ready the sacrificial lamb?



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21 Jun 2011, 2:19 pm

I don't really celebrate it but I do acknowledge it. I've been spending some nice time soaking up some sun outside and doing back out after dinner for a long walk. Something about there being so much sunlight for so long today makes me happy and reminds me that it's officially summer. I love sunlight!



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21 Jun 2011, 2:21 pm

ShenLong wrote:
Shall I ready the sacrificial lamb?


Nah... sacrificial lambs are so last year.


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21 Jun 2011, 2:32 pm

Happy Solstice!

I'll celebrate by having a nice beer. I don't have a group to celebrate with, but I might drum a little and visualize having one to celebrate with by the Equinox.


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21 Jun 2011, 2:45 pm

I heard that Angry Birds is going to release a Summer Soltice edition - I may be gone for a few days...

Anyway, good luck planting your crops everyone! :D



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21 Jun 2011, 2:55 pm

Even though it's officially summer, it's already been feeling like summer for about a month where I live. We've been having weeks of 100-degree weather.


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21 Jun 2011, 9:50 pm

Descartes wrote:
Even though it's officially summer, it's already been feeling like summer for about a month where I live. We've been having weeks of 100-degree weather.

Basically the same here. "Summer" means nothing in the sub-tropics.
I celebrated the Solstice by having my air-conditioning fixed and eating a hot dog.
Oh, and listening to the second movement of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"
However, I do like dreaming about dancing around naked at Stonehenge with torches and so forth and watching the Sun rise.

:sunny:


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21 Jun 2011, 10:07 pm

Happy Solstice!

I put on shorts, have "Cakes & Ales", and tell the wife she's beautiful.

By the way, Midsummer's Eve is the night of August 8.


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21 Jun 2011, 11:28 pm

I celebrate the Birthday of Ray Davies which is what I've almost forgotten to do. :D


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22 Jun 2011, 2:53 am

Acacia wrote:
Descartes wrote:
Even though it's officially summer, it's already been feeling like summer for about a month where I live. We've been having weeks of 100-degree weather.

Basically the same here. "Summer" means nothing in the sub-tropics.
I celebrated the Solstice by having my air-conditioning fixed and eating a hot dog.
Oh, and listening to the second movement of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"
However, I do like dreaming about dancing around naked at Stonehenge with torches and so forth and watching the Sun rise.

:sunny:


one state above you...I been celebrating solstice by worshiping my air conditioner ))======= :hail:


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22 Jun 2011, 4:20 am

I celebrate every year... but only because the solstice happens to fall on my birthday!



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22 Jun 2011, 10:42 am

Shame the longest day passed under a blanket of slate grey sky where I live, but Earth's extremity positioning is worth acknowledging :D



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22 Jun 2011, 9:39 pm

Thank you and happy (slightly belated) solstice to you as well. :) I was going to celebrate it, but instead spent a few hours walking to and from a gas station (broken fuel gauge on the car I was in). It was a lovely, green area, though, so it was still nice to get out.


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22 Jun 2011, 9:47 pm

I didn't celebrate...rarely do I celebrate the holidays these days. I have no alter set-up here, the local pagan community is iffy as hell so I have nothing to do with them, and I can't afford to go out and get drunk :P


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