It will soon be my fourth Midsummer upon the mountain, and on the eve of travel my thoughts drift back to lessons learned in previous years. . Under the Solstice sky I have made friends and made love. I have revisited old music from new perspectives, and discovered newer still. I have earned gifts of art and metaphor. I have gathered memories fond and foul, and have been inspired to write and share my experience. I have raised my cup in debauchery and penance. I have been broken. I have ‘died’. I have been reborn. . Even as flesh falters through cold nights, the mountain persists. A constant. A demarcation. A catalyst of change in the crucible of dawn. . I wonder what lessons I am to learn this year… . . #houseoftheholy #funkenflug #speckjaga #solstice #midsummer #festival #neudeggalm #abtenau #austria #alps #mountain #music #art #tankard #alpinehat #talisman #pinecone #ritual #occult #heathen