Lakewood, Ohio Will Be Lit With Pagans This Weekend!

Lots of events happening this weekend:

• Car/Motorcycle show;
• Father’s Day;
• Mosquito Lake Beach Bash;
• Summer Solstice 2026; and, fittingly,
• Witches Night Market.¹

Lakewood’s Solstice Steps

Evidently, Lakewood, Ohio (a neighborhood just west of Cleveland) will be lit with pagans this weekend, given the Solstice and Witches events will take place there.

Maybe Maggie and I will head up there—check out some Lakewood witches and perhaps watch the sun set beautifully across Lake Erie.

I’m sure many people will be playing this song:

“Witchy Woman“
Eagles (ca summer 1972)

[Verse 1: Don Henley]
Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her fingertips
Echoed voices in the night
She’s a restless spirit on an endless flight

[Chorus]
Woo hoo, witchy woman
See how high she flies
Woo hoo, witchy woman
She got the moon in her eye

Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode whereby Elaine Benes chooses the Eagles’ song “Witchy Woman” as her “song” with a new boyfriend.

Napoleon’s Hypothetical God

Napoleon Bonaparte makes a compelling argument regarding that quote on the cover image of this post:

Relatedly, I’ve had this book about him sitting on my bookshelf for a few months (I bought it at a thrift store last October for 25 cents) titled “Napoleon” by Paul Johnson:

Behind the book and to the left is my peppermint patch (a little green frog lives there); directly behind the book are a few tomato plants, all basking in the sun on Summer Solstice Morning 2026.

Summer Solstice Late-morning Exercise

Given I’ve decided not to go to Lakewood to partake in the Summer Solstice 2026 activities (it will be too cloudy; forecast of 99% cloud coverage), I got a later start with my weekly cardio.

Here I am in the late morning on Summer Solstice 2026, somewhat sweaty, after a 7-mile run on the Western Reserve Greenway Bike Trail. I’m standing next to my Cignal Rialto commuter bicycle, which I ride to and from the trail (7.0 miles round-trip).

In the DIY bicycle basket is the book I’ve just begun reading (a nearly 900-page book by Fyodor Dostoevsky), so “Napoleon” will be sitting on my bookshelf for a few more months (I’m a slow reader!).

Closing Words

In some near-future short posts, I’ll write more about the friendly frog, the big book by Dostoevsky (1821–1881), and how and why I decided to commit to reading it while I was at the Unique Treasures Car & Bike Show yesterday at the Trumbull County Fairgrounds.

Footnotes

1. Its website is KeepClevelandCreepy.com ↩︎
2. Image credit: City of Lakewood’s website. ↩︎