A reminder + a poem from Dennis Lee

Notes From the Reading Nook: December 21

Hi there, and happy solstice! Tonight is the night we turn off all the lights, burn a mound of candles around bowls of soup and good bread with even better butter, and marvel that this very darkest time brings with it the promise of its opposite: a summer night in June, in the middle of a year yet to come, full of a warmth and a glow we can neither full…