Solstice Soup

 I totally missed the solstice today. It was at 12:47 p.m., but I didn't know that—all I knew was that lunchtime had come so I warmed up some soup and ate it. The solstice as an event just doesn't do much for me. Some people think it's a time of mystical revelation, and they make a big deal out of it. Me, I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. It's the first day of winter, there's 15 inches of snow on the ground, and the only thing I'm going to make right now is more soup.