solstice

I understand why ancient northern people valued Solstice so much. In the tropics, it would never occur to us that the sun may go out. In this part of the world, it wasn’t so farfetched to think it might. If you ask me, it does just that – the colors fade, the sun seems like an image of itself.

Solstice in the summer is a different matter. It’s bright and warm enough to forget that it’s a tragedy – the tragedy: that what waxes, wanes.