on the small pleasures of axial tilt
Dec. 18th, 2011 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frotzI thought "mid-latitude Northern hemisphere sunset is earliest in early December" was one of those little oddities that most people knew, but based on a conversation elsewhere, maybe not. So: Hey! We get more light at the end of the day already! Yay! In particular for where y'all might be, the earliest sunset was the 11th in Seattle, the 9th in Boston, the 8th in New York, and not until today in Reykjavík. Y'all in Whangarei can just shut up already about the lovely spring weather.
While I have the traditional respect for the solstice, I'm also usually not someone who's awake to see the sunrise, so effectively that makes my shortest day in early December sometime. I don't really like the paucity of daylight this time of year, but even though we're only talking a minute or two either way knowing it's all downhill from here still gives me a kind of small existential happiness to get through the dark times.
(That I've also been up to see the dawn for the last couple of weeks is something I hope I don't start making a habit of! For me, seeing dawn is reliably equivalent to being chronically underslept, cranky, and generally miserable, and all this during a season that has enough stressors already.)
While I have the traditional respect for the solstice, I'm also usually not someone who's awake to see the sunrise, so effectively that makes my shortest day in early December sometime. I don't really like the paucity of daylight this time of year, but even though we're only talking a minute or two either way knowing it's all downhill from here still gives me a kind of small existential happiness to get through the dark times.
(That I've also been up to see the dawn for the last couple of weeks is something I hope I don't start making a habit of! For me, seeing dawn is reliably equivalent to being chronically underslept, cranky, and generally miserable, and all this during a season that has enough stressors already.)