If there were going to be an accompanying soundtrack to this season of Pride, one that was barely audible, like a mosquito swarm buzzing near your ear, it might be Judy Garland singing “Get Happy” — and those are our marching orders!
Let this be the summer of getting back to the small things that are real, avoiding all the distractions, false flag operations and such, devoting time to incline one’s attention to self-contemplation and self-care. Considering how everything feels fragmentary and ersatz, carve out time to sort out what needs to be ignored from what is truly important.
When I was discussing the struggle to produce this article (with a close friend, an artist), they politely suggested utilizing an AI program to finish the job, which surprised the heck out of me. I’d prefer to maintain any mangled syntax, for verisimilitude. I will admit that it is being composed with the aid of speech to text just to speed the completion.
This is the time to find some joy. While this might just sound like happy blather, it’s good to focus and recharge so one can fight the good fight, putting aside that strange tendency to demean any speck of a search for happiness as being a delaying tactic to deal with reality.
The rainbow was viewed as a bridge that connected heaven and earth, symbolizing godess Iria’s role as a divine messenger between the gods and humans
Let us take up the example of goddess Iria, the swift messenger of Hera. The rainbow was viewed as a bridge that connected heaven and earth, symbolizing her role as a divine messenger between the gods and humans, along her vibrant, multicolored arc. As the goddess of rainbows, Iris embodies joy, wonder, and the magic of nature. Consider that we may have missed out in offering a (dare I say religious) argument to those opposed to and eradicating the Pride flag and rainbow crosswalks. It’s astonishing that supposedly well-educated politicians and civic leaders have chosen to deploy their powers in such a manner, considering their Ivy League education. (I am looking at you, bloviating governor of the Sunshine State.)
However, considering the now long-standing efforts to dismantle higher education, with universities such as Syracuse now discontinuing their classical studies departments, their disdain for such a symbol is not that surprising.
Maybe we should all be carrying a prism around our necks as a symbol for a new religious movement and establish the Iris cult, with a concomitant legal protection.
It’s strange, considering how in the Bible the rainbow is a single solitary indication that Jehovah will not flood the world a second time, and considering how rising sea levels are lapping at the shores of Florida, that this is the battle that has been chosen.
One more pagan way of looking at these circumstances would be that we are here to experience all that we can learn while still alive in this body. Whatever the powers that be attempt to eradicate, the great book of nature opened to all gazes cannot be banned, whose instructions cannot be deleted or banned by any particular party or by any particular sect. And let’s also honor during Pride, one of the month’s birthday girls singing, literally, “Over the Rainbow.”
