The 2008 Winter Solstice occurred at 5:04 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. This picture was taken from my parents' deck in the Denver area this morning just after sunrise.
A new ABC/Washington Post poll shows that people are optimistic about the coming Obama administration.
Cheers for the return of the Sun and good things to come!
The Shortest Day
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
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