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Winter Solstice

Today is Winter Solstice, the day with the shortest daylight of this calendar year. Tomorrow, the sun will shine longer – and the next day, daylight grows longer still. Winter Solstice seems an appropriate day to create something new. Thus, this blog is born.

I confess that I love longer days and that each year, after day’s light begins to shorten after Summer Solstice, I look forward to the date when light begin to lengthen again. Days with increasingly less light fool me into thinking that it’s later than it is; and I look at the clock with surprise to find it’s only 7:00 pm while inside it feels like 11:00.

I’m intrigued by Winter Solstice. The word “solstice” derives from the Latin roots sol meaning “sun” and sistere meaning “to stand still.” A curious phrase, isn’t it, that connotes a time that the sun figuratively stops in place. In life, sometimes, it just feels like the sun is standing still.

And just after the sun reaches its greatest distance from the earth for a moment, it moves closer again. More sunshine. Less darkness. More warmth and growth. All these, the reasons why ancient peoples celebrated this time of renewal and rebirth.

For the curious:

One of two days annually when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator of the earth

Thought to be integral to the design of monuments such as Stonehenge

Considered to be on Dec. 25th until Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar bringing the winter solstice to around Dec. 21st

On the eve of Winter Solstice, the stars in Orion’s belt align with the brightest star in the eastern sky to show where the sun will rise the morning after

Winter Solstice is also known as Midwinter, D?ngZhì, Yule, ?abe Cele/Yalda, Soyal, Te?ufat ?ebet, ?eva Zistanê, Solar New Year, Longest Night

The shortest day of this year in the Northern Hemisphere

A favorite day because, from now on, days get longer

A day of renewal, rebirth and expansion

The day in 2007. we launch a new blog

www.infoplease.com/spot/wintersolstice1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice

The facts are fascinating, but what do they mean? 10:08 pm PST on December 21, 2007, is a metaphor for the farthest away that we can get from our physical source of light and warmth. But there is only a maximum coldest distance for a brief moment, because we are blessed to live in nature’s rhythm of beginning, ending and renewal.

Our work supports the accomplishment of a myriad of worthwhile and significant projects for an evolved clientele – many of whom become close friends. It is a privilege to think together strategically within our specialty of private and non-profit settings.

This blog is dedicated to all of these people and situations which present themselves every day as new opportunities for gracious service.

All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. – Victor Hugo

RENEW. PROSPER. EXPAND. GROW. EMBRACE. LOVE.