June 21st was the longest day. That’s what yesterday was where I live. Actually the last 36 hours were unbelievably long for members of my family.The first official day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere is marked by the summer solstice. In addition, the first day of summer, the summer solstice, also marks the longest day of the year. At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest. The word Solstice derives from two Latin words, sol (sun) and sistere (stand still) and refers to the Sun's most extreme southernmost or northernmost position in the sky as viewed from Earth. The southern extreme is the summer solstice.
I didn’t really care about any of that when on Monday night, the eve of Solstice, my married daughter, aged forty-two, mother of three children, beautiful blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman, Master’s in Music from Western Washington U, drove herself to the Hospital Emergency doors and told them she had chest pains. Hours later following testing we learned that she had suffered a heart attack.
