Happy Winter Solstice 2023

Soaking up the substandard solstice sun.

Happy Solstice, planet Earth, you amazing, magical, and beautiful blue-green globe of loveliness. And to all of your human inhabitants.

Congratulations on completing another solar year in our trip around the Sun, something that has been happening dependably for 4.54 billion years, plus or minus 50 million years.

Today, in my location, we experience the shortest day of the year. 

Sunrise: 7:56 am

Sunset: 4:45 pm

Then after a brief celestial stall, as of December 23, our days begin to get longer. 

This glorious enlightening trend will continue all the way to June 21, the next solstice.

In that time we will gain about 6.5 more hours of daylight, and who doesn't like that?

Here's to another 4.5 billion winter solstices.

I find that a comforting thought in a time that we aren't even sure we will survive to the next calendar year.

Hang in there, people. This too (like shorter and shorter days) will pass.

Nature, and thus humanity, abides. For are we not part of resilient, creative nature?