WINTER SKY AND THAT TIME OF YEAR
AN EXCERPT-
'Darkness comes swiftly in the Long Night Moon of December. At the end of this twenty-first day of the month, this shortest day of the year, this time when, in other ages, men lit bonfires to strengthen the expiring sun... at 1147am CST December 21, 2009, the year reaches the instant of the winter solstice. In that moment, the northern hemisphere leans farthest away from the sun. A season dies; a season is born. We took one breath in autumn, the next in winter.
-Edwin Way Teale. (from 'Wandering Through Winter')
-*passage augmented. -RSC.
NOTE* Photo above -my 'Elijah' in Santa's Hat, Happy Holidays!
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