summer solstice

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Pixie and I have been on vacation in Vermont all week and it has been lovely. We arrived on Friday, June 17th. It was a long ride since I took the back roads and it was a bit confusing. As soon as we drove into the driveway of the house where we were staying. I took Pixie out for a walk around the lovely property. It was very green and peaceful. I was enjoying being out of the car and all of a sudden I heard a yelping sound and Pixie had seized a baby groundhog and was about to kill it. Well, at that point, I screamed so loudly that the golden retriever, named Pi , across the street looked up in alarm and Pixie dropped the groundhog quickly.
Amazing ,  that the first thing that she sighted was a  small groundhog and that she dropped it as well. It was unharmed and after some complaining, s/he walked away. I was a bit shaken and I thought that this would probably be a week of intense and deep learning. Well it was. The energy of the solstice seemed to be one of burning off what ever  life paradigms were no longer useful. I cleared out a very old one from childhood and I could not have predicted what the outcome would be. I definitely got what I needed this week and It was not what I wanted. Gentle journeying to all of you during this time.
As an addendum, the  small groundhog came out and was visible as we were leaving  the house that  last morning.