It's the winter solstice today.
It's a day of hope. From here, days get longer.
I look forward to that. Waking up to the dark is not my favorite thing.
Although my favorite winter solstice was three years ago when I took my kids out for a bike ride around Stonehenge.
What a three years that has been. Three years that I really need to process and write about. Some of the darker harder times I've ever experienced have come in the 1096 days since that ride.
I don't spend a lot of time looking backward. And I've not done during the hard times either. Accept what is. Assess how best to adjust. Move on.
But some backward looking is probably in order.
So today as the solstice feels right. And the right time to look at that turning of the corner from dark toward greater light.
There will always be more darkness. It comes around again, inevitably. But so does the light.