Winter Solstice

I find the Winter Solstice perhaps one of the most exciting days of the year.  I have always loved the fact that it is shorter than any other day of the year.  Less hours for making mistakes or for demanding people to demand things of me.  Just a brilliant gift handed down from Mother Nature.  There is a touch of sadness that comes with this day and that is the gradual lengthening of days that begins tomorrow.  Before I know it, the days are so long that I have made twice as many mistakes and those demanding people have an infinite list of requests that I apparently have all the time in the world to grant. I guess if things seemed always as perfect as today, then I wouldn't view them as perfect.   The perfection of today has included an unexpected errand to a friend's house, an extra long and expensive trip to the grocery store, the weekly OCD cleaning of my kitchen and furniture & the preparation of two hot meals for those demanding people previously mentioned.  Thank goodness I can call it quits early.  Happy Winter Solstice!