Tree Marriage by William Meredith | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor

Today is the aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is at its farthest distance from the Sun. The Earth and all the other planets have orbits that are “eccentric,” a slightly squashed circle, and the Sun is slightly closer to one end of the ellipse. The perihelion — the point in the orbit when we’re closest to the Sun — occurs in January, and at that time we’re about 5 million kilometers closer than we are at aphelion in July

Tree Marriage by William Meredith | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor