Mid-summer musings

As the summer Solstice rapidly approaches, pushing Christmas ahead of it and bringing the prospect of warm summer days "perchance to dream", Kris - in these mid-summer musings, draws widely from literature, film, a poem of Joy Burki-Watson - read this morning by Helen; Karl Jung - "We dream of our questions, our difficulties", to find resolution; the Mythologist, Joseph Campbell contrasting Oriental acceptance of illusion and European preoccupation with the rational: the Persian poet, Hafiz's allusion to the Sun and its power - contrasted with the aloof and patriarchal Duke, Theseus - in Shakespeare's "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream. Kris suggests that we might be tempted, like Theseus - to emotionally detach ourselves from the "seasonal realm of pageantry and emotional hooks, with its thicket of labels and indoctrinating messages constantly bombarding us'.
The Spanish poet, Antonio Marchado points the way in his poem: "Last Night while I was Sleeping". Kris asks: "What if our hearts were like the sun?" Rather than the emotional detachment of Theseus, Kris advocates another way to navigate the seasonal maze we may find ourselves in at Christmas.  Kris's musings were rich with allusion. And on what promised to be a warm summer's day, we did not nod off! Nor will you! Listen on!