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THE SUMMER WIND
Summer begins on the 21st of June, and it comes with a sunrise near five a.m. and a sunset near nine at night, or almost 17 hours of full daylight in this part of the world that most readers are occupying as they read this. The full moon for this month occurs on June 29, 2026. Known traditionally as the Strawberry Moon, it will reach peak illumination over the Lake Geneva area at exactly 6:56 PM CDT. The title of Strawberry Moon has nothing to do with the moon’s appearance. It originates from Native American Algonquin traditions, as the full moon in June signaled the peak of the wild strawberry harvest.
What does this mean by this coming conflagration of uncommon celestial events, when coupled together with one of the strangest and potentially deadly political times in the country’s history? The conclusions about that are all conjectural, but some of what’s going on this summer is being made up or assembled with some amazingly scattered and unintelligent actions from one end of the United States to the other, from the east to the west, and from the north down to the south.
Prices for almost all goods and services continue to rise at rates hardly reported by the government and only truly known by experiencing the effect of them. SNAP and Medicaid coverages are being dropped across the nation as almost all other prices go up. Voting is being changed to deny some thirty to forty percent of the nation’s population the ability to vote at all. The nation’s 250th celebration of its existence, coming this July 4th, is being conflicted with Cage Fighting of the UFC and taking place on White House lawns while the obnoxious and mostly ridiculous fighters are saluted by ordered and uniformed real military service members as if their staged fights are really combat being undertaken for the good of the country. The Department of Education is continuing to be disassembled by a woman who runs a professional wrestling company, with the latest being the cutting of funding for federal assistance to disabled children and more. Vaccinations are under attack and as a result, the increase of deadly childhood diseases, once thought eradicated, are back. The nation, meanwhile, loses the most ridiculous war it’s ever been in as grand concessions are granted to a country that never had such power before, and three hundred billion is being put together as reparations for America’s mistake. Meanwhile, the country is now spending more money and borrowing it than in its entire history, even during WWII, while the leaders state that everything is just fine.
The summer has not yet even begun, nor have the torrid temperatures that normally plague most of the country during July and August. SpaceX, a company that has had little success in launching its giant rockets and loses on average five billion dollars a year, becomes the most valuable company on earth while its mastermind sells stock that he actually controls after selling it because everyone is buying off the shelf anyway. And summer has not begun. It’s almost like the full moon will start appearing on June 21st and continue remaining there until the end of September. How is anyone to make anything of this that is understandable? It’s like some mental disease overtook the country, which reduced the average IQ numbers to single digits. The ‘Claw’ structure built on the White House lawn for the big celebration sits there, like some unmoving but potentially very deadly beast, as if imported like Godzilla from one of those campy, awful Japanese films. If nothing else, in this time of vast discontent, can this period of the country’s history be ‘waited through’ to the point where some sort of sanity returns? Not likely this summer, so get ready for an odd but hugely greater and more deadly version of a Nantucket Sleigh Ride.
