June Naive Folk Art Summer Celebration Poster

The calendar picture for June: Mysteries of life, growth, evolution, of male and female beginnings in people and in the rest of Nature. I prefer to pick pagan celebrations for the calendar illustrations because pagans were and are more likely to accept various ways of living and diversity of spiritual practices. Sometimes to their own demise, when some "monoculture" people take over and work hard to destroy old ways. It is good when all kinds of people coexist in peace and freedom. But these days not many grown ups want to be chaperoned into somebody else's version of paradise. Too much was already harshly pushed from above, which just lead to people loosing trust. Harmony only possible if it grows organically, from the ground. Only by personal experience could attitudes change: "We are having a great party, do you want to join?" Can we learn to be ok with people who have very different opinions joining in? A calendar. A ceremony. A pure fantasy. By Alexandra Cook aka Linandara.