It's written in the starlight and every line on your palm.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns.
And we have just one world but we live in different ones...

I'm in a strange place today, this first day of summer. I thought I would be so excited when the long summer days finally arrived, but as I sit here at 9:30 PST and the sky is not yet grown dark, I am ready for the darker days ahead.

Through these fields of destruction, baptisms of fire,
I've witnessed your suffering as the battles raged higher.

I was thinking about how it is Summer Solstice today, but just half a world away, it is also the coldest and darkest day. And it made me think about how small the world we share really is, how close we all are.

And though we were hurt so bad in the fear and alarm,
you did not desert me my brothers in arms.

It makes me wonder how we can be so cruel to one another, so ignorant and vindictive. But it also gives me hope that someday we will overcome our differences, which are really so small, and find a way to love one another, and the earth, and find ways to live together in peace.

Happy Solstice to all, winter or summer. May you find love and peace in the darkness and the light.

Some day you'll return to your valleys and your farms
and you'll no longer burn to be brothers in arms.
~ "Brothers in Arms," Dire Straits