Every New Year, the memory comes back to me as if it happened yesterday. Craig turned to me in homeroom and said, “Can you believe the 70s are nearly over?” 31 years on it seems more like a ghost than a question. But the 70s, as a decade, were a lot more than really bad hair, clothes, and dancing. A lot of interesting things crystallized at this time that define the world we live in now.
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Doctor Who
A long holiday is more than a few days off, it’s a trip back through time. Reconnecting with family and friends drops us back into conversations and simple glints in the eye that send us back to who we were long ago. To our parents, we will always be the child they lovingly shielded from the darkness or spent hours crafting a perfect holiday for. To our childhood friends we are still the kids who had small adventures together. The traditions that set the scene for all this are as varied as our lives, but they often involve rituals around a television watching a holiday special or sports.
This isn’t a bad thing, necessarily, it’s just what most of us do.
Christmas Snow
Another snow has blanketed Saint Paul, hushing the gentle breath of the city that sounds around us. It is Christmas Eve and we are all bedded down in the still of a lazy lingering sleep. The problems of the world are all far away, past streets that sleep and houses buried in tight. The isolation is complete and splendid.
Smart Birds
Though we live in a very human-made world, we still have animals around as pets. Some are kept for their cuteness or friendliness, a few intrigue us because they seem smart. But how smart are animals compared to humans? Recent research suggests that some, in particular birds, may be a lot closer to our intelligence than we might like to think.
Winter Solstice
Tomorrow is, for my family and me, the big Winter holiday. The Solstice is precisely at 23:38 GMT (5:38 PM CST) on 21 December, always right on schedule. At this moment, the northern hemisphere will be at its darkest, but also starts turning back towards the sun. We celebrate it by blowing out the many candles that are lit and enjoying a few moments without light or sound – just the music of the spheres to contemplate for a moment. This is our holiday for the season.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 