We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
~The Talmud
Goodbye to summer
If you didn’t say goodbye to summer with Labor Day, and you didn’t say goodbye to summer last Saturday, when we hit the equinox, you may be saying goodbye to summer today with the last day of September. October is many glorious things, but summer it is not.
Summer yet lives!
This may be the first full day of fall, but summer yet lives when I can go outside on a late Sunday afternoon and hear the sounds of the ice cream truck’s music in the air.
The march of time
Over time, today’s horror becomes tomorrow’s tragedy becomes next week’s sorrow becomes next year’s sad memory becomes just another date in history.
OK, summer changes us, but so does time in general
“…if September is no different from June, July, and August, then we’re doing something wrong.”
– Mitch Albom
Stein’s Law
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
— Stein’s Law
… and which parallel universe is THIS?
If there is an infinite number of alternate universes, in one of them there is a universe which does not have an infinite number of alternate universes.
This paradox will keep me awake tonight thinking about it. Well, OK, probably not me, personally, but some alternate version of me will be fretting about it somewhere.
Taking the new year for granted
When do you take the fact that it is a new year for granted? Personally, I’ll go much deeper into the month to wish those I see a happy new year. I’ll probably do that through the end of the month, to those who I haven’t yet seen in 2010. It seems kind of silly to me to wish someone “Happy New Year” come February, though.