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EXHUBERANCE AND DARING: Bonfire at the Saint John festivities in Madrid’s neighbourhood of Fuenlabrada
[Pic: Ayuntamiento de Fuenlabrada/flickr/CC]
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STANDING around at Stonehenge. Smoking too much weed. Bonkers dancing. That’s one way of celebrating the solstice. Linking hands in a ring on a medieval mound in a municipal park and singing circle songs as the cloudy grey dawn lightens is another. All good.
I’ve learnt better ways to do it, though — for myself.
It’s three weeks now since Midsummer, but I’m still enjoying the memories of one of the best and longest I’ve celebrated… so no apologies for this piece, despite its late timing.
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