As I see it, here we are on this rock that orbits a star, in a quiet part of a spiral galaxy somewhere in the great, wide vastness of space and time. On our rock these events, changes, and patterns have an enormous impact on us Earthlings. They are important to us. We have spent a lot of time trying to decode them, to manage our expectations, to predict what’s coming, to grow, to thrive, to survive. No matter when or where on Earth we live, we humans tend to schedule our most important events around the same times. Sure, Christmas and Hanukkah often fall around the same week. But so does the
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