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I couldn't pass up the opportunity to blog the Leap Year and today - Leap Day.
As I remember, Sadie Hawkins could have her way on this day. And as I always wondered, if you were born on 2/29 do you have to wait until you're the equivalent of 64 to get your driver's license? And the very least, for the kid in all of us, you'd never have to deal with being directed to "act your own age."
Today, I read, that we have an extra day of interest to pay, and of course, the members of the bourgeoisie have an extra day of interest to collect.
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/02/29/happy-leap-day-unless-youre-in-debt
This year, the Leap is during Lent. Now, before you get ahead of me and start lamenting an extra day of dietary deprivation, just remember its just an extra number added to the calendar, not an extra day - we still have 40 days. But, I think there's something to be said about anomalies such as this, as well as our place in the universe.
The extra day is added to bring things back in sync. A year is 365+1/4 days long - but not quite. Actually, if you add the extra day every four years, you're STILL OFF every hundred years and so on the century (the "00" year) there is NO Leap Year. And if you DON'T add the Leap Day every 100 years, you're STILL OFF, and so every fourth century, you need to add the LEAP DAY - and that's why, on our most recent century year - 2000 - we DID HAVE a Leap Year.
No matter how much we try to correct things, we always fall short of perfection. That's just the nature of things. Its the nature of the universe, its the nature of the years and time. And certainly, its the nature of life.
Lent is that time to put things in order. Add or subtract the things that will bring you back into sync. And yes, you may never hit perfection, you may never be in sync, but that's why they call it life. The fun is in the challenge, the fun is in the trying, that is, the fun is in living.
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| February 29, 2008 |
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| I was having a discussion with a colleague earlier today and our conversation went to how great it was that there was so much mystery in life, that we can't possibly understand everything and that makes every day fresh and full of new challenges. Otherwise we'd just be like wound-up mechanical robots, but thank God we're human!! We're not perfect, but life is worth living because every day is an opportunity to reach toward that perfection. |
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| March 04, 2008 |
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From Father Vazken: "And yes, you may never hit perfection, you may never be in sync, but that's why they call it life. The fun is in the challenge, the fun is in the trying, that is, the fun is in living." From Abba Poemen (the Shepherd): "Experience is a good thing; it is that which tests a man." |
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