Good morning. It is the summer solstice.

Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year here in the northern hemisphere. Tomorrow will also be a full moon.

A friend asked me if this synchronous culmination held any special significance to me. It caused me to think.

The solstice is a time of peak vibrancy, vitality, vivacity. The days are finally warm and long enough where the bees wake up before us, the chickens look fat and happy, the cat stalks a moth across the lawn at dawn. You can hear the garden grow.

Life abounds.

So too the light.

Tomorrow the days begin to slowly wane and we begin the long walk to winter but today…

Today we are wreathed in light.

Even at night, the moon will reflect the good silvery summer-light onto our darkened world, leaving no time, no space for the dark to creep in.

So, today is hallowed.

It is a day where the abundant strength of all the good green things that grow, of life at its zenith, is amplified and extended by a good lunar reflection that provides light where otherwise there is none.

I invite you then to join me in pondering how we too can reflect the light we see in the world, how we too can amplify the good green gleam filtered through the bower, how we can make the dark times and places a little brighter, how we can usher beauty and goodness into a world that does not always feel beautiful and good.

It is a privilege to even ponder the question.

Happy solstice everyone.

Make it bright.