by Deborah Globus

by Deborah Globus

by Deborah Globus

Today we celebrated the Summer Solstice.  Technically we were a day late but with an eleven year old, a fifteen year old, and all the other characters that attend we’ve found it’s best to be a little flexible with timing, lest we don’t celebrate at all.

We celebrated the Solstice with a Norse boast, a drinking game that the Norsemen of the cold North used to while away the long nights of winter.  We borrowed it, feeling that the boasting aspect of it – making things as grand and elaborate and LONG as possible – seemed in alignment with the sun’s longest journey in the sky.

A Norse boast is drunk in four rounds as follows:

by Deborah Globus

We’re an inter-faith family.

But that’s not quite true.

by Deborah Globus

This one goes out to my friends at The Creative Haven:

My circle of friends always celebrated the Vernal Equinox by tying colored “ribbons” to trees to bring into our lives what we were hoping for in the upcoming season.  We would use color symbolism to represent the quality we were looking for, sometimes combining colors to get just the right feeling.

Want to play along?