Growing up, you learn in school how on the vernal equinox you can stand an egg on it’s tip, or how the summer solstice is the longest day of the year. Even when you know precise days (3/20 or 3/21 and 6/20 or 6/21), every March when the equinox rolled around I would forget to test this theory, and every June I would look forward to the longest day of the year and never notice until it had already passed. So consider this your lucky reminder: today is the summer solstice. Sunrise was at 5:21am and sunset will be at 8:29pm. That’s fifteen hours, 8 minutes of daylight. The sun is right now as high in the sky as it will be all year long. After today, each successive day will shorten. Enjoy it.
I’m outside now, but after spending last night around buckets of fresh, meaty, vomit, I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m puking my own guts out later. Stomach virus foreshadowing? Pray for me.
