The winter solstice is very wintry this year. About 5 inches of snow Thursday night, and the highs today are expected to be only in the upper teens Fahrenheit. It’s the perfect day for a reminder that, even though the cold is settling in for at least three months, every day from now on will have a tad more light than the day before.
On the shortest day of the year, it’s a sweet thought. In our coldest, darkest hour there is the promise of light. As the saying goes (of course I paraphrase), yes, the cold darkness can kill us, but if it doesn’t, we emerge stronger.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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