As we all well know, tonight is the longest night,

counterpart to the day with the shortest period of daylight. (Oddly, it is not the day with the latest sunrise or earliest sunset —

those occur a bit before or after the solstice.)

Enjoy the long darkness and the recurring promise of the other half of the cycle,

with daylight stretching towards warmth and growth. Nothing is more sacred nor worshipful than this: Season’s Greetings! mjh

PS: Precision freaks may like knowing that Winter begins at 11:35am. I accept that we can measure the time

any point on Earth’s elliptical orbit occurs, but I’ll be marking the Solstice from sunset to sunrise.