Solstice Dreaming

I dreamed among the ice caps long ago,
Ranging with the sun on the inward slope,
Down the wheel of seasons and the solstices.
                —N Scott Momaday from Prairie Hymn

Summer Solstice 2026: A watery dream accelerates as the ice melts. This Earth, a place of stone, knows molten density. Knows solar intensity. Thinking to and fro, this boat rocking through gateless sky. What do we know?

 

Photo: Petroglyph, detail. High Lakes, Lake County, Oregon. Douglas Beauchamp. 

 

CODA
What follows the light is what precedes it:
the moment of balance, of dark equivalence.
            —Louise Glück from the poem Solstice

Flowering Earth

Flowering Earth or Emergency Earth: Resetting Normal

"The extreme temperatures of 2023, 2024 and 2025 will be seen as cooler than average in just a few years.  Continued fossil-fuel emissions are rapidly resetting what the world considers normal."

—Samantha Burgess, European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service

“That’s the big difference between where we thought the world would be in 2015, and where we are now.”  —Samantha Burgess

‘New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13012026/multiple-reports-show-2025-extreme-global-heat/

Flowering Earth, figuring Sky, forgiving Seasons: this boulder is part of a complex of rocks, petroglyphs, and alignments at a place of passage.

Chewaucan basin, Lake County, Oregon. Photos Douglas Beauchamp

Morning light throws deep carving of Earth Flower in relief.