The Solstice is a time to be mindful. It's about being present, but not about stopping time It's about savoring the present without thinking or feeling about it It's about acknowledging all the emails, text messages, tweets, updates, news flashes, alerts, alarms and distractions without engaging with them for a few minutes It's about learning how to interact with the universe around us in a focused, meaningful, thoughtful way. We're standing or sitting or laying down on a planet that is orbiting around it's axis once a day, and orbits a star every year and rises and falls up and down along the plane of a universe every 125 million years that has spinning away from the galactic center