{"id":2103,"date":"2009-04-08T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:55:08","slug":"let-the-wheel-come-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/let-the-wheel-come-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the wheel come around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a> informs me that there is a Hebrew tradition of celebrating a 28 year solar cycle \u2013 when the vernal equinox falls on a Tuesday at Sundown. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birchas_Hachama\">wikipedia<\/a> this represents a return of the sun to the position where it was when the world was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that the Julian calendar messed <strong>everything<\/strong> up, and this particular observation is now progressing forward through the week. Welcome to the Wed. edition of a Tuesday celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I\u2019m not a creationist, I do have a certain appreciation for the long, slow cycles of nature. A fortunate human being might get to hear this particular heartbeat three times. Some of us may get to see Halley\u2019s comet twice. Most won\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, most people pass their lives wrapped up in the minutes and hours \u2026 barely getting their heads above water to observe the days or months. Seasons pass without notice \u2013 and so a lifetime goes by unobserved and uncherished. In that spirit, I too am celebrating this 28 year cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 years ago, I was 5 years old. I was approaching the end of kindergarden, living out in the country as an only child with my two parents. My hair was blond and uncontrollable, and I would tell endless stories out of my active imagination. For amusement, I painted on pennies with watercolor paints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I\u2019m 33 \u2013 I\u2019m married and I have two siblings and one parent. Or \u2013 by another way of looking \u2013 I have three siblings and three parents. I\u2019ve been all the way around the world, and I make a pretty darn good batch of beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where were you 28 years ago? Where will you be 28 years from now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>redmed informs me that there is a Hebrew tradition of celebrating a 28 year solar cycle \u2013 when the vernal equinox falls on a Tuesday at Sundown. According to wikipedia this represents a return of the sun to the position where it was when the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin","category-philosophy","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}