ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Humans all over the Northern Hemisphere will share nature’s ritual of darkness on Monday’s #wintersolstice. In the lower 48 states, this year’s longest night will last 15 hours and 50 minutes in Angle Inlet, Minnesota. In New York City it is 14 hours and 45 minutes, and in Miami 13 hours and 28 minutes. In Ka Lae, Hawaii, the southernmost point in the U.S., it will last exactly 13 hours. The longest night of all is hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, at the northernmost tip of the country. In Utqiagvik, Alaska, the sun set in November, buried beneath the horizon, not to rise for 65 nights. And even here, one of the remotest places on earth, the coronavirus is spreading. But the season of darkness also offers ancient lessons of hope and renewal. All over the world, celebrations of light dot the winter darkness like stars. “I have spent some long, scary nights waiting for the sun to come up,” Barbara Brown Taylor, an author and Episcopal priest, reflected. “The hardest thing is to keep trusting the cycle, to keep trusting that the balance will shift again even when I can’t imagine how. So far it has.” How do we survive #winter? Tap the link in our bio for the rituals and stories that remind us of hope and deeper truths during these months of darkness. Photos by @springerinn and @dedecim」12月22日 4時11分