The editor of the Colorado Sun wrote this:
"I hope you weathered the summer solstice this morning OK and aren't too far into grieving the diminishing daylight. I'm kidding, of course. We have months before we can honestly start complaining about that."
S/he's right, mainly because it stays warm and nice out for quite a while after June 21, so we don't have to start dreading short days until Labor Day, at which point it's like someone flips a switch. (Although personally, I tend to start dreading it as soon as I get catalogs with sweaters on the cover and I see a school-supply aisle in the store.)
Whereas we can start celebrating on Dec. 22, because although it's still cold out -- in fact, it's generally coldER than it had been before that -- we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. So to speak.
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