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This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

Margaret Atwood
Letting Go, Past, Years
Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.