Spring Solstice 2026

On Friday night I had posted that in honor of Spring Solstice 2026, I wanted to invite anyone that wanted to pray with me at 10 am on Saturday, I would send them an invitation to join me on Zoom. It turned out to be a wonderful visit with Jamie Holloway since we don’t get to see each other nearly enough. Her new AAC device makes it so much easier to communicate with her but Zoom makes it nice to see her sparkly eyes and pretty smile too! If we could figure out how to do virtual hugs it would be perfect!

I confessed to Jamie, that I was full. The stress of the world was too much. I couldn’t take anymore. She reminded me that God told us to have a sabbath for a reason. I remember that I was successful at leaving Facebook alone, except for a few select posts, on Sunday, back before the world became so hostile. And then somewhere I just couldn’t look away. I stopped reading anything but the bible for joy. After our conversation, I picked up Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou. I have devoured it since that conversation.

Yesterday I was gathering some dried herbs to add to a soup. I was looking for oregano, rosemary, and sage. And the voice that talks to me when I cook, told me to grab the thyme. I responded that I don’t like to cook with thyme like this.

Usually I don’t argue with the voice. I also don’t usually feel emotions from the voice but I felt some irritation from it and it was kind of muffled, but the voice said, “But Karen likes it.”

So I grabbed the thyme. By then I had sensed the voice was female and she was coaching me through adding the herbs. Which I didn’t care for, but I thought it was sweet that someone cared this much about our food so I listened as added a small amount of sage and just a little bit of thyme and then some lemon oil because the voice reminded me that they knew Jamie had told me that it goes well with oregano and it made her happy when we enjoyed our food. Then as I was about to walk away, she said to add a half a tsp of salt. That was when I was done with being told what to do because I salt when I first start cooking vegetables and at the end. I don’t salt in the middle because I don’t want to over salt. So I said: “Which Grandma are you?”

And she said: “Does it matter? Do what you are told!”

So I did.

Then I called my mom and told her about it. She was a little uncomfortable because this is not something we talk about in her part of my family. She did humor me though. She said that it would not have been Nana, because Nana didn’t cook. It would not have been, Grammy because she only cooked dessert and Grandpa Johnny was the cook in their house. She said it must be Grandma Clemenson. After thinking for a few seconds, I agreed that it made sense that it would have been Grandma. You did not talk back to Grandma.

When Karen G Clemenson came home she tasted the broth and said it was perfect. I told her about my visit. Then I told her that this weekend was spring solstice and Grandma’s birthday is the 28th. We agreed it did not seem weird that she would come for a visit.

I must admit that taking a sabbath, no matter what you do, is important. I made time for some self care. I did some reading. I had some deep thoughts that I am still considering. In fact one thing I should put out there for anyone who wants to consider inviting us to your church for Easter, please don’t. I know I wrote about being ready to find a church, and I know there is one I might go to one day, but I never did, mainly because I don’t believe in organized religion. I love people and I love Christians but my, oh my! I believe in the separation of church and state and that is not the world we live in anymore. In any case, if we were to visit, which I am not against, if we were to visit it would never be on a holiday. Church on a holiday is like religion on steroids. I am a brutally honest person and I think it is hypocrisy to go to church on a holiday if you wont go on just any old Sunday.

If you wont invite me to your un-birthday, I am probably not the one you want at the big shindig on the only day you bring out the fine china. I think if you have finery, it should be used because the sun came out and you felt like inviting me over and that is the holiday. And if you don’t have finery, I am fine with that too.

To borrow a quote from Peter Pan in the movie Hook:

“To live, to live would be an awfully big adventure.”

 

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