{"id":1685,"date":"2010-06-21T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2010-06-21T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:35:28","slug":"how-i-spent-my-summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent My Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some people just cannot handle the solstice. (The Telegraph, UK)<\/p><\/div>\n

It wasn’t this bad. On Sunday M. and I went up to Salida, Colorado, to catch the last day of FIBArk, the whitewater boating festival<\/a>, watching competitors come down the frothing Arkansas River as we drove upstream.<\/p>\n

Our main interest was in the Crazy River Dogs event, which we have managed to attend for three of the last four years.<\/p>\n

In this photo, the brown dog will be pursuing the aspen pole at upper left as it bobs through a rapid in the downtown Salida kayakers’ water park.<\/p>\n

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A "river dog" leaps into the Arkansas River after a flying aspen stick.<\/p><\/div>\n

FIBArk, like the solsticial doings at Stonehenge\u2014I found the first picture in this slide show<\/a>\u2014marks our beginning of high summer.<\/p>\n

To me the quarter days of solstices and equinoxes are “outer” festivals. They should be celebrated with public festivities, whether those festivities are capital-P Pagan or not. Food booths in the park, paddle-flailing kayakers, swimming dogs, the Sun beating down\u2014it’s all good.<\/p>\n

The cross-quarter days are for magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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