"Solstice(s)"

       Shortest day of the year.  But that means they'll be getting longer day by day, which will please my wife especially:  "Can't we speed it up, say, two days' worth each day, at least!"

       From Latin, "solstice"  means "sunstand."  The sun stops on a dime and turns around to head north.  The day is so short, I hurried up my afternoon shopping at Ralphs to get home before dark. 

       I guess I figured with Rudyard Kipling's "If,"

       If you can fill the unforgiving minute
       With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
       Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

until Earth turns another 6 months or so and Connie and I can laze forever on a "Summer Afternoon."