A New Year

One of the things that make us human is our love of making arbitrary distinctions dividing time and space.  Calendars, kilometers, centimeters and seconds, we slice and dice our way through life, reducing our passages, temporal and geographic, into manageable pieces.  Today, on the calendar of a dead empire still used by my Church to count time, is the first day of a new year.  As such, it seems to be a good time to try and resuscitate this dormant blog.  In celebration thereof, here is a pictue of a sunset from the weekend: