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December 21st, 2008

Happy Solstice

In the head­long rush towards the Christ­mas break, it’s easy to for­get that peo­ple have been mark­ing this time of year for pretty much as long as there have been peo­ple. It’s the short­est day today – marked across mil­len­nia as the turn­ing point when we begin look­ing for­ward to the future. Tra­di­tion­ally, this has been a time of opti­mism – longer days, shorter nights, the promise of bet­ter times to come.

Of course, just now, opti­mism is in pretty short sup­ply around the world.