Winter Solstice 2024

 

 Winter Solstice

Saturday, December 21, 2024, 4:19 p.m.

 

The Winter Solstice…is the shortest day of the year. 

         Long ago it was believed on that day the Sun stood still in the sky.  Then, the next day, the Sun continued on his journey; and the days began to lengthen!

The word Solstice evolved to Middle English, from Old French from Latin solstitium, from Latin (combination of sol, the sun, and stitium, to stand still.)

 

Seven Sisters 

(serigraph on mulberry) C.D’I.

“Sun is shining, the weather is sweet.

Make you want to move your dancing feet.”

Bob Marley

 Summer Solstice – Midsummer

Thursday, June 19, 2024 

4:50 p.m.

 

One of the four solar holidays;

the turning point

at which summer reaches its height,

 and the sun shines longest.

 

Solstice Sunset Shadows
(Photograph by CDI)

“Brightness appears showing us everything
it reveals the splendors it calls everything
but shows it to each of us alone
and only once and only to look at
not to touch or hold in our shadows
what we see is never what we touch…”

 

            W. S. Merwin, “The Wings of Daylight”