Diary 278

Monday, December 21st

Today was the Solstice, but cloudy skies made it feel curiously like any other winter day. At 6:30 pm I hoped to view the planetary conjunction, the first such since 1623, but again the skies were overcast.

The fact that we can’t see something – that it’s obscured by clouds, by misinformation, by fake news, by a feckless former ‘president’ – does not mean it’s not happening.  The times are a’ changing, and we all know it.