10 years ago

Glasgow 22^nd June 2005. West end Tinderbox café, Byres Road.

“June 21st marks the longest day and the shortest night in the solar year and brings completion to the dreams we invoked on the Winter Solstice.

Nothing is impossible now. All that awaits the birth of our future ventures is focused intention. What we’ve been holding close to your heart for the past six months is aching to be released into the here and now.

The word solstice means the standing of the sun and it is also time for us to stop, be still, listen to our inner voice, remember past promises to ourselves and make preparations for the road ahead.

Just as at the Winter Solstice, everything began its journey outward towards manifestation.

Summer Solstice begins the process of everything turning inward once more.

Our ancestors, those who lived close to stone circles, would stay up all night and greet the sun as it rose over the carefully aligned structures.

Be careful to record your dreams coming up to the solstice. They will bring messages, awaken your intuition and stir your soul towards achievement. We may feel overwhelmed as the forces of the universe collide with our intentions—but we need to just hold on tight to resolve and make whatever we need to happen, happen.

Courage! All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

If you feel like a bubble is about to burst, it is! It is the bubble of all that pent up energy that has been brewing since you awoke on the winter solstice and began to expand towards the Possible”

I have had all this engraved in me since I was really young writing and burning wishes at midnight… spells left to the mercy of the Universe.

A frantic bus trip from Edinburgh to Glasgow… I could not be late for this… shower, my lucky green dress and Interpol as soundtrack blurring in my ears….Bus 44 was late… so I had to run from Broomhill Drive.. Run chica, run… you cannot miss this.

Ten years later, I still picture that coffee shop drawing our futures in napkins…. That night my life changed forever. ..Midsummer brought you..,.. serendipities… ? maybe.. 22 is my lucky number.

“You come along on summer days
Tenderly, tastefully

It's so me, we make time
Try to find somebody else
This place is mine

Set the day, you know exactly how I feel
I had my doubts little girl
I'm in love with something real
It could be me, that's changing!

It's so me, we make time
To try and find somebody else
We pass a line

Now season with health
Two lovers walk on lakeside mile
Try pleasing with stealth, rodeo (?)
See the stands long ending path

Oh, how I love you
And in the evening, when we are sleeping
We are sleeping. Oh, we are sleeping”

C’mere, Interpol.

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