This Just In: World Not Ending on 12/21/12
No, the world is not ending on December 21, 2012. The Maya calendar is circular, fitting their conception of time. On 12/21/12 (or 13.13.13 in the Maya long count), we start the calculations over. It's like the odometer on your car turning back to zero after 100,000 miles. I actually know quite a bit about the Maya calendar (except for the math involved), because I read. That's why I'm not afraid. Knowledge is not only power, it's security. Maybe that's a lesson for this season: We become more safe when we share what we know and are open to considering what others before us and around us have learned and writen down for us.
Here's another thing to consider about December 21st. Not only will the world not end, but the days will actually begin to grow longer - in terms of daylight, that is. What a wonderful thing that is! Even though winter - and in my part of the country, the worst of the winter weather - usually comes after 12/21, every day we receive a little more light.
Since Mother Earth isn't going to destroy us, maybe we should do her a solid, and start taking care of our home. Maybe pollute a little less, recycle a little more. Get active for the Earth. Maybe worry less about who caused global warming and a little more about how to preserve the only habitable place we have at the moment. Remember when you and your sibling were fighting over the last of the chocolate milk and spilled it all over the floor. Mom asked, "Who spilled the milk?" The two of you pointed fingers at each other, cried, yelled, stomped. Meanwhile, the milk was flowing slowly but surely across the kitchen floor. What did Mom say? "I don't care who spilled it, you both can clean it up."
Finally, the delay of the demise of the planet means Christmas will come this year, and you need to fill some stockings. May I recommend the gift of reading! Naturally, I offer my book, Hurricane Blues and Other Stories, available now for under $12. Order Here At one story a night, this collection of short fiction will give your friends fourteen winter nights of good reading. That's less than $$1.00 per night! Aren't your friends worth a dollar? I know some of mine are.
To readers and writers everywhere -- HAVE A HAPPY, HEALTH, SAFE AND LITERARY HOLIDAY!
Here's another thing to consider about December 21st. Not only will the world not end, but the days will actually begin to grow longer - in terms of daylight, that is. What a wonderful thing that is! Even though winter - and in my part of the country, the worst of the winter weather - usually comes after 12/21, every day we receive a little more light.
Since Mother Earth isn't going to destroy us, maybe we should do her a solid, and start taking care of our home. Maybe pollute a little less, recycle a little more. Get active for the Earth. Maybe worry less about who caused global warming and a little more about how to preserve the only habitable place we have at the moment. Remember when you and your sibling were fighting over the last of the chocolate milk and spilled it all over the floor. Mom asked, "Who spilled the milk?" The two of you pointed fingers at each other, cried, yelled, stomped. Meanwhile, the milk was flowing slowly but surely across the kitchen floor. What did Mom say? "I don't care who spilled it, you both can clean it up."
Finally, the delay of the demise of the planet means Christmas will come this year, and you need to fill some stockings. May I recommend the gift of reading! Naturally, I offer my book, Hurricane Blues and Other Stories, available now for under $12. Order Here At one story a night, this collection of short fiction will give your friends fourteen winter nights of good reading. That's less than $$1.00 per night! Aren't your friends worth a dollar? I know some of mine are.
To readers and writers everywhere -- HAVE A HAPPY, HEALTH, SAFE AND LITERARY HOLIDAY!
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