There Goes the Sun (♬doot-'n'-doo doo♬)

Our warming orb is fading away, and won't be back for months. Who planned this, anyway? WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

THE SUNLIGHT IS SLACKING. THE DARKNESS ADVANCES. Every day we northerners lose a little glimmer, and become a little glummer. It’s called seasonal affective disorder, or SAD.

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“Here Comes the Sun” has been replaced by the Ride of the Valkyries, and I don’t like it one bit.

My yoga teacher tried to reframe this as a yin/yang thing:

According to Chinese philosophy, Yin—the dominant mode for the next six months— was associated with the moon, the shady side of the mountain, all things female (hey, I didn’t make this up), the passive, plus wetness, cold, and darkness. Comin’ atcha, northern hemisphere!

Yang, on the other (warmer) hand, is everything we’ve loved about the last six months: all things masculine (ditto, not my cosmology), engagement, the sun, warmth, dryness, riding roller coasters—in short, all the things you might experience on vacation.

Here in the north, you could either be sad about this, or else…well, you could be really sad about this. Not that I begrudge our southern ne…