It is never easy to get up from a warm bed into a cold and dark winter morning ... Sir Gawain is crossing the Wirral. A poem for this very day, the solstice, the shortest day, what John Donne ...

Let’s celebrate the solstice with some wintery quotes and poems… ‘Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.’ Khalil Gibran ‘Winter is the time for comfort, for good food ...

Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.