Winter Solstice today: "also called the hiemal solstice, hibernal solstice, and brumal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.[3] Either pole experiences continuous darkness or twilight around its winter solstice. The opposite event is the summer solstice. Depending on the hemisphere's winter solstice, at the Tropic of Cancer or Capricorn, the Sun reaches 90° below the observer's horizon at solar midnight, to the nadir."
Here in the Midwest we wake up to the darkness, we have a few brief hours of light, and then early darkness descends once again. Sort of resembles the trajectory of our lives. Dark to Light to Dark.
This is a reminder that we all exist on a spinning little globe in a big old Universe of things. Gravity holds our feet to the ground. The Sun, that big ball of flame feeds all Life here on Terra Firma.
It's a weird-ass Life. All kind of humbling if we pay attention...
