Tuesday, August 10, 2004
(9:07 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Lost Time
I know what the calendar says, but based on my extensive observations of the weather today, I have determined that it is actually September. We have skipped three weeks.Some might be upset about having lost a chunk of our finite time here on earth -- there were riots in the Middle Ages when they skipped two weeks in order to change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, of people tired of the pope stealing their life away from them -- but I feel good about it. I've been ready for it to be fall since mid-July. Part of it is the weather and the beauty of the changing leaves, but more important is the sense of renewal that comes with a changing school year.
I'm not sure what it means that my experience of renewal occurs just as natural reality is entering into the "death" portion of the life/death cycle. T. S. Eliot would have had a PhD if not for a technicality -- could that be part of the background to his famous line, "April is the cruelest month"?
