Solstice

The Winter Solstice is sneaking up on us. What the fuck is it? The day the sun is farthest south. On this day the sun travels the shortest path through the sky which means Boston only gets 9 hours and 5 minutes of full sunshine. Compare this to:
Anchorage there’s 5 hours, 28 minutes
Reykjavik gets 4 hours, 8 minutes
In the northernmost town in Finland, Utsjoki, it’s basically dawn all day.

On the other end of the spectrum:
Miami, Florida gets 10 hours and 31 minutes
Mexico City has 10 hours, 58 minutes
In Quito, Ecuador, the town closest to the equator, there’s 12 hours, 6 minutes of sunlight on the Winter Solstice.

So then, things could be worse OR better.

 

Every mile is two in winter.

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

The Christians stole the Winter Solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.