Posted December 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Happy New Year!

People have been marking—and often celebrating—the passing of time for all of recorded history. As the most easily observable markers of time, days and seasons, were the first to be recorded. It won’t surprise anyone that people living in places with readily observable seasonal changes were the first to use calendars to track the passing […]

Posted November 16, 2014 in Monthly News

Seizing the Day

Although I do not have a coy mistress, I increasingly find myself contemplating Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress”. The poem is probably the best-known carpe diem, or “seize the day,” poem in English literature. The main theme of the poem is the need to take advantage of today because time passes quickly, and […]