A Midsummer Nights Dream

I had forgotten for a moment but guess what? Midsummer, also known as the summer solstice or the begining of summer, occurs between June 21st and the 23rd, depending on what your ethnic or religious roots are. How exciting that my "Pink Martini" Event is happening just then.

There are times in life when ritual and magic play a very important part. Whether Christian or Jewish, Moslum or Hindu there is a need to express the passage of seasons and the effect that they have on us. From time inmemorial we humans have been searching for answers to how, where and why. But in the end it always leads us back to the begining.

I have stopped asking questions about life. I have now begun to feel the meaning of this mystery, and it is just that. It is not the how as much as the how to. Not so much the where as how to get there. And definitely not the why because that is the reason for the for the first two.

The main reason for the Midsummer, Solstice, or Sukkot was and is a way to mark that time when the sun stands still in the heavens and bestows three days of timelessness. Three days of long and late light that warm us before the slow and deliberate darkness begins again. Three days to throw caution to the wind and revel in the joys and warmth of our new found beginnings. To dance and feast on the abundance of the season. But most of all, a time to gather and celebrate each other and to heal our winter wounds.

So wear your beads and feathers on the 23rd and dance with me in the celebration of life and have a "pink martini" or two ...