the shortest day of the year, the longest night of the year and paradoxically (starting tomorrow), the return of the light. In these days of so much going on outside, remember the inside. Your sweet always there, always waiting for your attention, self. We need the stillness that the dark brings, the way it can allow us to reflect, consider, turn from the excitement of color and stimulation and understand what we might not be listening to in all the motion. So happy solstice, everyone — and remember even when it seems the dark is going to win, the light always returns.