Special Winter Solstice

Winter begins today with the solstice at 4:23p.m. CST, just 24 minutes before sunset. The Winter Solstice 2018 coincides with the Ursid meteor showers as well as December's Full Cold Moon.

A blogger I follow entitled his post today: Solstice: Tis a reason for the season....
For those of us who can relate to SAD, this day is especially welcome as it signals the turn toward light - longer days after the longest night. Though, to be honest, the days, weeks, months, seasons, years, pass so quickly anymore, I barely have time to recognize my seasonal affective disorder.

But I still celebrate the solstice, this year with a passage from Wallace Stegner's book A Shooting Star:

"He stood looking, and some tick of Time went past - a moment or a thousand years - and he squeezed his tired eyes shut and looked again, and the night hung silent around him, the invisible silver was still falling, the moon was already lower."

I've shared this passage before, but on this special day/night, it seems appropriate to share again.

Blessed Solstice Greetings.