The Daily Boost #498

Celebrate the sun!

Time to celebrate summer solstice!

SUMMER SOLSTICE SONG
Tasha Harmon, Heide Goertzen, Shawn Orpinela, Jeffrey Kolwitz

We rise at early morning, to break bread with the sun.
Tonight is summer solstice, we’ll dance the whole night long.
We’ll gather all together, celebrate the sun,
watch it sink to evening, darkening’s begun.
Gather all together, celebrate the sun,
watch it sink to evening, darkening’s begun.

Dance the spiral turning. Dance the circle ‘round.
Weave our souls together. Let our voices sound.
Dance the spiral turning. Dance the circle ‘round.
Weave our souls together. We are homeward bound.

We’ll harvest from the garden the best the sun has made.
The first little tomatoes, the peas grown in the shade.
The lettuce and the endive, berries red and blue,
combine them all with joy to share with all of you.
Lettuce and the endive, berries red and blue,
combine them all with love to share with all of you.

Dance the spiral turning. Dance the circle ‘round.
Weave our souls together. Let our voices sound.
Dance the spiral turning. Dance the circle ‘round.
Weave our souls together. We are homeward bound.

We’ll gather in the clearing, and build the fire high,
sing and pass the fiddle, and eat up all the pie,
tell stories tall and true and speak of things to come
and when the shortest night falls we’ll beat upon the drum.
Gather all together, celebrate the sun,
watch it sink to evening, darkening’s begun.

Dance the spiral turning. Dance the circle ‘round.
Weave our souls together. Let our voices sound.
Dance the spiral turning. Dance the circle ‘round.
Weave our souls together. We are homeward bound.

(My thanks to the Sun, and to Kendálin.)

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