In Celebration of Summer Solstice

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

- Kahlil Gibran

Dear Friends,

We are so grateful for a long good spring on the Eastern Side of the Sierra with some rains lingering into late May. Everything is a lot greener than usual and there is still snow in the mountains. It would be hard to believe that we are already at the peak of summer..... well, if it wasn't for four programs happening simultaneously at this very moment, that is.

In Colorado, the Diamond in the Rough course and the Mirroring Training are underway and here in Big Pine the CA month-long training has just begun up in the Inyo's. Also underway in the valley is this year's Global Program, led by a dear friend from Switzerland.

I n honor of solstice, we want to simply offer a few gifts of the ceremony today, celebrating all the amazing people who have ventured into the threshold and mustered the courage to bring their insights back and their love for this life forward.

Wherever this email may find you on this day, we hope you find the time, perhaps even just the one moment, to turn your face squarely into the sun; to take a moment to bless and be blessed by the full force of all that is coming to light in you at this time.

In these coming months may we ripen well into whatever particular fullness is ours to hold at this time, stretching, nourishing, opening, flowering, and finally making the golden seeds that go out beyond our recall.

Happy Solstice from all of us at Lost Borders!

Petra Lentz-Snow

It is our birth rite and responsibility to say yes to that which wants to blossom through us, for it is an offering of beauty and all that sustains life. - Joseph Lazenka

Art, Poetry and Inspirations from the threshold

Threshold Gift by Evan Frost, 2019 March Ballcourt Fast.

Threshold drawings by Brandon Seckler, 2017 Spring Fast.

Threshold Poetry - by Kim Belair, 2019 NM Women's Fast

PLEASURE

They told me that it has to be earned or bought.

That it is a performance of sorts.

That the appearance of pleasure is what the people want.

Never mind if you faked it, or are faking it now.

So long as you appear embodied.

A real woman knows what she wants, they say.

But embodiment starts with the child,

with the simple pleasures of being alive.

Screaming, thrashing orgasm has its place,

but do you know about the sun on your skin?

The dirt under your feet crumbles as you walk,

leaving a dusting of powder that changes their color to pale,

inviting the question, Goddess or Ghost?

Pleasure is a journey that has no relation to any destination.

Pleasure just wants to be invited, to take her time as she travels,

acquiring new ways of experiencing herself,

over and over again.

Drawing by Will Smith during 2019 Men's Fast Story Circle.