solstice

feeling so down, then so up. (sliding back into my old tricks again, here in Burnaby.) fitting for the solstice celebrations: yes, solstice was yesterday, but today is the day when sun is on the up. we marched in percussive lantern procession to fire dancers and water cannons then to the Roundhouse. they spoke of solstice like some kind of battle we're winning. something like "the eternal symbolic battle of light and dark are fighting in the sky but the good will prevail! GO SUN!"...yeah. but then there were some tuvan/tibetan-style throat singers, digging deep into the earth (i was there, covered in dirt), then soaring into the sky. then, a labyrinth made out of candles in brown paper bags, flickering. i watched the people like type going onto a newspaper.

on my way home, i felt like a candle in a bag, flickering. wanting to burn the whole fucker down.

can you hear me?