June 21 is the best day of the year
When I was younger, June 21 was always the best day of the year. It was the day each year when I received presents and a jellybean cake with candles topped with tiny flames. Yes, the anniversary of my arrival in this world is momentous, but I keep finding more and more reasons why June 21 is the best day of the year.
June 21 is widely known as the summer solstice. Essentially, June 21 is the first day of summer, but this is also the day where the earth soaks in the most sunlight. In Oklahoma City, the sun should rise at about 6:15 a.m. and will set around 8:49 p.m., according to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department, where you can calculate any day’s sunrise and sunset at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_pap.pl.
For those of us who are naturally sunshiney, a full day of natural light much makes us even more chipper.
But if the summer solstice isn’t enough to make June 21 the best day of the year, tomorrow is also All-Couples Day. Never fear, single people: this is not the day of year where you must find a date to go to Red Lobster or you’ll be publicly shunned. Rather, it is ritualistically the day where young, unmarried women can find their true life-mates.
According to tradition, if a young woman fasted on June 21 and set out a table at midnight with a clean cloth, bread, cheese and ale and waited with her door open, the man she was to marry, or at least his spirit, would enter and feast with her. But I’m not getting my hopes up or leaving my door wide open.
If summer solstice and All-Couples Day aren’t enough to make the 21st of June the best day of year, tomorrow is also Recess at Work Day. Celebrated on the third calendar Thursday of each June, Recess at Work Day encourages businesses to organize a 30-to-90-minute break for their workers. Employees should turn off their computers and cell phones, go outside and do something fun as a group – anything from eating ice cream to playing games of Hopscotch and hide-and-go-seek.
If you don’t believe me, here’s a photo from RecessatWorkDay.com of a member of the American workforce enjoying her recess during last year’s Recess at Work Day.
So four questions remain for you before June 21 arrives:
1) How will you soak up the sun on summer solstice?
2) How will you and your special someone celebrate All-Couples Day? If you are single, do expect to find your true soul mate?
3) Will you invent a fun activity for your coworkers to celebrate Recess at Work Day?
And most importantly, question No. 4:
4) Do you now agree that my birthday is the greatest day of the year?
-Lindsay Goodier, NewsOK.com Editor
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