It Is Too Hot For Pants
Ways Summer Solstice is Celebrated in New Mexico:
1. Get naked! Because it's 100+ degrees outside and otherwise your skin will melt into your face.
2. Honor the light! Until its constant and unflinching brightness gives you sunstroke, because there is no such thing as shade or cloud cover.
3. SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE. (okay, to be fair, the majority of the southern half of the state has been on fire since May. But today the bosque lit up, and now the entire city is under an air quality alert from the clouds of smoke hanging over. DNW.)
There are some flaws in following a ritual calendar made up by people living in much more northerly and temperate climes, I must admit. The solstices and equinoxes don't change, but Litha is supposed to be the first day of summer, and here we are already well into the most wretched part of the season. Candles and marigold petals just seem a little inadequate in the face of a Southwest summer, you know?
Perhaps I will come up with a holiday for the first day of monsoon season. I'm sure I could find plenty of people here who would celebrate it with me.
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1. Get naked! Because it's 100+ degrees outside and otherwise your skin will melt into your face.
2. Honor the light! Until its constant and unflinching brightness gives you sunstroke, because there is no such thing as shade or cloud cover.
3. SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE. (okay, to be fair, the majority of the southern half of the state has been on fire since May. But today the bosque lit up, and now the entire city is under an air quality alert from the clouds of smoke hanging over. DNW.)
There are some flaws in following a ritual calendar made up by people living in much more northerly and temperate climes, I must admit. The solstices and equinoxes don't change, but Litha is supposed to be the first day of summer, and here we are already well into the most wretched part of the season. Candles and marigold petals just seem a little inadequate in the face of a Southwest summer, you know?
Perhaps I will come up with a holiday for the first day of monsoon season. I'm sure I could find plenty of people here who would celebrate it with me.
This entry was originally posted at http://masterofmidgets.dreamwidth.org/272426.html. You can also comment there using OpenID.