The End of 2013

via Is there a difference between man-made time and natural time? I recently wrote an essay arguing against man-made time, which I believe is not the same as nature's time. There is a rigidity to the time created by us, a sort of cultish awareness and it often keeps us dancing off-beat. Today is the last day of 2013, and as I am rather sentimental, I cannot help it but pile on the drama. There will be no NYE's party for me, I will be reading Thucydides (*cough if I am able to stop watching Lark Rise to Candleford on Hulu). However, I have already started journeying back through the idea of '13, and trying to imagine the idea of '14. I am also thinking of the silent beauty of nature's time: the sunlight with its several delightful yellows, the moon and stars in their romance, the seasons with their flowers, fallen leaves, snow, and rains. What about life? Birth, the toddler years, the teenage years, the ridiculous and pompous phase known as adulthood, and