New Year’s Eve: The Holiest Day of the Year?

AH, THE EVE OF THE GREGORIAN NEW YEAR. What shall we make of this contrived, “pop transit?” Surely we can come up with a kinder interpretation than “co-opted Solstice.”

If you’re like me, it’s hard to whoop it up about a unit of time so unstained by the intercourse of stars and nature. The more>

Rainbow bodies: True nature and the colors of the zodiac

IMAGINE GOSSIPING PASSIONATELY about the color yellow, making a pass at orange or displaying a spectacular indifference towards crimson. It would be crazy, insane. The colors of things are, after all, only a laminate—too delightfully ephemeral to take personally. Yet, it is just this kind of rainbow reactivity that taunts and haunts us every more>