Archive for Time
About five hours from now, the winter solstice will arrive in the northern hemisphere. (And the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere.) This is my usual reposting of two winter-solstice verses. First, from T. S. Eliot‘s “Burnt Norton” (1935): At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; […]
This morning’s northern-hemisphere vernal equinox was a couple hours ago, so here’s my traditional spring post, even though it’s raining here this week. For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remember'd […]
It turns out that there are 8 factorial minutes in February. And that’s not just a random coincidence; in fact, you can demonstrate that it’s true without performing any multiplication at all, just some easy factoring. February contains four weeks. The number of minutes in four weeks can be expressed as: 4 weeks x 7 […]
I completely spaced on the solstice yesterday, though I had been looking forward to it. So, a day late, here’s...
About ten hours ago, the vernal equinox arrived here in the northern hemisphere. In honor of that, here's my traditional...
Winter solstice here in the northern hemisphere arrived about nine hours ago. Here's my traditional solstice post. First, from T....
Winter solstice is impending in the northern hemisphere; it'll be about eight hours from now. I'm glad that the days...
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
The vernal equinox was four hours ago here in the northern hemisphere. In honor of that, here's my traditional...
Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is due to occur about seven hours from now. I'll be on a plane...
Thursday I wasn't up to posting my usual cheerful vernal-equinox post, and then I had no time Friday and then...
Here in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice happened three hours ago. In honor of the sun beginning its gradual...