Happy Solstice!...embrace the dark In centuries past, the hours of darkness were a time when no productive work could be done. Which is to say, at night the human impulse to remake the world in our own image — so that it served us, so that we could almost believe the world and its resources existed for us alone — was suspended. The night was the natural corrective to that most persistent of all illusions: that human progress is the reason for the world. nytimes/2014/12/20/opinion/why-we-need-the-winter-solstice.html?_r=0
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