01/01/07
My computer tells me that this is January 1, 2007. Yup! For those of us who happen to use the Gregorian calendar, it's New Year's Day, the first day of the Christian year 2007. For us here on the mountain in Air Bellows, it began when a ball of lights fell from a building in New York City into Times Square. I wasn't there but I'll accept the news accounts that it actually happened.
I don't get very excited about New Years Day, be it Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Chinese. All it really means is that some event has repeated itself. For the Christians and Chinese, the Earth has nearly completed a rotation about the sun (if it was not a Leap Year). For the Muslims, the moon has gone through a number of phases. And for Jews, it's a matter of both sun and moon. And it is rarely, if even, the same day for any two of the calendars.
The biggest deal for me is that Uncle Sam's Tax Calendar begins on New Year's Day. And that means I have exactly three months and 14 days of procrastination left before being obliged to fire up TurboTax 2006.
Happy (Gregorian) New Year!
I don't get very excited about New Years Day, be it Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Chinese. All it really means is that some event has repeated itself. For the Christians and Chinese, the Earth has nearly completed a rotation about the sun (if it was not a Leap Year). For the Muslims, the moon has gone through a number of phases. And for Jews, it's a matter of both sun and moon. And it is rarely, if even, the same day for any two of the calendars.
The biggest deal for me is that Uncle Sam's Tax Calendar begins on New Year's Day. And that means I have exactly three months and 14 days of procrastination left before being obliged to fire up TurboTax 2006.
Happy (Gregorian) New Year!
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