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Summer Solstice
June 21st

Stories and Poems

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The Three Ways of Tao: The Peaceful Warrior, by Flavio Daniele, 2012 originally from From Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching:  "The warrior inside us calls us to be brave and to fight when necessary, for ourselves and for others. He is equipped with unshakable faith, not blind faith, not faith in dogma, but a faith in a final goal..."
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days: To allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid and more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as a seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. 
                                                         by Dawn Markova
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The Parable of the Trapeze:  Turning the Fear of Transformation into the Transformation of Fear  
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Danaan Parry
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This is a Summer Solstice story from Sweden. It describes how the whole village came together on Midsummer to create the image posted here.  I don't have the name of the book this came from, but the author of the story is listed.

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15 Well-known Quotes that refer to the sun: "But to enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."
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3 Midsummer Poems:  An excerpt from "Midsummer's Night Dream", "The Joyful Feast of St. Joh, and Midsummer NIght (about Fairies)
I Am a Solar Powered Creature: (Author unknown-from our group)-​I am a solar powered creature.  The light of the sun awakens me to each new day; awakens me to understanding and appreciation of life; calls my consciousness into action...
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