The sun was up early and so was I.  After my alarm clock rang and so rudely interrupted my sound sleep, I put on my radio headphones  just in time to hear the Weather Channel reporting it was already 73 degrees out.  It was only 6:00 a.m.  What happened to the cool and refreshing temps a few days back?  Ugh to The Muggies.   I left the house early and got in a 3 ½-mile walk this morning, which puts me over the century mark now; I hope the temperature doesn’t rival that number as it will certainly put a kibosh on long walks for awhile.  Bumper stickers and fortune cookies proclaim:  “Life is a journey, not a destination…”  so my journey going forward will involve my best effort to stride another 100 miles to my goal of 200 miles in 2013.  I wonder if I will make it?  A few more days like today and I will melt into a liquid pool.  I stand corrected as The Weather Channel touted TODAY as the longest day of the year – actually a minute longer than yesterday.  So, today the sun will shine the longest and the moon will be the brightest and closest to Earth.  The tides will rise several inches because of this Super Strawberry Moon.  Well it all sounded good on paper, however the sun disappeared most of the day and thunder boomers and rain came in its stead.  The weather, the sun, the moon, even Al Gore’s supposed global warming – a lot of funky things are afoot in our universe nowadays.  Perhaps the plausible excuse is the stars are not aligned correctly.  Maybe we should be singing a few lines from The Fifth Dimension’s  “Age of Aquarius” and that will make things right again with the world.  Groovy idea man.  Peace & Love.