Shortest day, longest night, of the year.
How fantastic. How dramatic.
Six months from now the day will be the longest, the night the shortest and that is wonderfully fantastic too, but the drama of the winter solstice is in the indoor/outdoor aspects.
We have been moving more and more indoors because of the increasing cold, the decreasing light.
Now that has changed as the light begins to increase and the weather will gradually warm.
It will be some time for a noticeable difference but as of today there is a shift. A change of rhythm. Nature has moved, if only by a minute, and we, part of nature, respond on some deep level to the return of the light. To a moving toward the lessening barrier between indoors and outdoors. A cause for celebration. Happy Solstice! A natural New Year.