I once went down to Brazil to see a total solar eclipse.\u00a0 For an hour everyone watched breathlessly, as the silhouette of the moon gradually ate into the sun – first biting off a little, and then finally swallowing it whole.\u00a0 Until four glorious minutes of totality when it felt as though we were in another world, with a strange alien light that bathed everything in eerie darkness.\u00a0 Then there was the second hour, when the sun gradually appeared again.\u00a0 But nobody cared, nobody was looking.\u00a0 The gradual march to normalcy went unheralded, unloved.\u00a0 January 2 is like that.\u00a0 And yet without it, how would we ever really be able to continue on, how would the new year ever truly happen?<\/p>\n
We find this out, we find out everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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