the.com/midwinter
The year's longest dark, when the sun fakes its own death and we throw a party anyway.
solsticeSun appears to stand still for a few days
older than christmasPagans feasted here millennia before nativities
newgrange5,000-year-old tomb engineered to catch solstice dawn
earth's tiltCold comes from angle, not distance from sun
perihelionEarth is actually closest to sun in January