
Each year, I complete my holiday music offerings with a few songs for the new year. Invariably, these songs are accompanied by bittersweet recriminations, wistful longing and timid hopes for the coming year. This year is no different. I've said some version of this before, but here we go... Time is an artificial construct. Sure, the sun rises and sets. The globe spins 'round the sun. But not with the regularity that the clock and the calendar would suggest. And yet, the year's end is regarded as significant. That [...]
Time is an illusion. Yes, it takes about 24 hours (these things aren't precise) for the Earth to rotate, exposing us to a complete cycle of sunlight, but it depends on where on the globe you are and what time of year it is. And it's about 365 days to move around the sun. But we made up days and weeks and months. Then we pick a day in the middle of Winter and call it the end and the beginning. We need to, I guess. The New Year, we [...]