Loose ends. New year
As the year draws to a close and the darkness of the days begins to lift a tiny bit, I hunker down and try to tidy up the loose ends of 2021, so that I can begin 2022 with a clean slate. Ha! Fat chance, as the loose ends far outnumber the days that remain. Oh well. I’ll just carry on, because, one by one, the to-do list items do get crossed off, just maybe not as quickly as I might like. But, eventually, each box does hold that lovely tick mark to show completion. And, anyway, what is time but a construct that we can understand from a variety of perspectives if we open our mind to them. Take your pick from just these three — Mathematical explanation by Keith Devlin, Dean of Science at Saint Mary's College of California, in Moraga, California, and Senior Researcher at Stanford University: “…Most of us think of the time produced by our clocks as time itself. Yet the only thing natural about the time produced by clocks is that it is originally based on a complete revolution of the