Sunrise On The Shortest Day

I love the winter solstice - it gives me hope that from this point on the days will get a little longer even if only an infinitesimal amount.  I was supposed to go to a solstice yoga class, but something came up last minute and I missed it.  

"This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the years threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar."

Margaret Atwood