August 2017
"Even as fire finds peace in its resting place without fuel, when thoughts become silence the soul finds peace in its own source. When the mind is silent, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond
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the mind. This is wisdom, and this is liberation." ~The Upanishads
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The dog days of summer are upon us and you might think that they have something to do with hot and humid weather. Well that isn’t exactly where the term originated from; the dog days of summer are actually July 3 through August 11. Those days are the 20 days before and 20 days after the “Dog” star Sirius rises and falls in conjunction with sun. Sirius is the brightest star in the constellations Canis Major. The ancients Romans believed that its heat added to the heat of the sun, creating a stretch of hot and sultry weather. During the time between July and August the “dog” star rising with our sun made the ancients think the heat of two stars where making us hotter. In modern times, we know that there is no heat generated from this very distant start, but the term stuck. So even in modern times we consider the hot and muggy time of the summer between late July and mid-August as the dog days of summer. I remember well what it was like in New England, especially in August! On our wedding day, August 15th, in New London, Connecticut, it was 96 degrees and 96 percent humidity. There we were in our wedding finery, dying with the heat in a little non airconditioned church whose capacity was 150 people. There were 200 crammed into that tiny church. I remember being at the altar and feeling water running down my back, the front of me and the humidity frizzing my newly permed hair. Poor Ron was in a 3 piece wool suit, and so were all of the groomsmen. Our reception was likewise in a non airconditioned hall. The food was fabulous, but everyone was so miserable, that the MC (the pastor who had married us) sped up the proceedings and closed down the reception right after the cake was distributed.