An Extra Day

An extra day:

today is usually the last day of February, but this is a leap year with an extra day added, and tomorrow being the 29th day of the still shortest month of the year. Meteorologist generally place spring’s arrival on the first of their proper month and the equinox itself being more of a formality of the stars, a recognition of their astronomical location. So it seems, at least in meteorological terms, that spring is delayed by a single day due to a technicality of the earth’s travel.

of course the season doesn’t know this.

and it feels like spring outside.

it takes the earth approximately 365.25 days to travel its course around the sun, a solar year, and this doesn’t quite fit within the perimeters of our calendars. A leap year makes up the difference, every 4 years we accumulate an extra day to lend to February and we’re repaid with an extra day of winter. It seems to me that we could have invested this time in June, increasing the length of summer by a day and staving off the touch of autumn. But time and seasons don’t work this way, truly being independent of our clocks and calendars, and we mark their passage only for our own convenience.

life itself doesn’t have an extra day.

it’s expressed only in a given moment.

always now.

and this is where we live it.

regardless of our clocks and calendars.

~

Peace, Eric