Happy New Year 2020!

With the completion of yet one more orbit around the sun we take our leave of one year and begin another. This time we also take our leave of the second decade of the twenty-first century and begin the third one! Time flies, as they say, it really does!

When I was a child, I thought a year was a very long time. Later, I thought that ten years was a long time. Now, I am inclined not even to recognize ten years as an especially long time. Ten years is not to be dismissed out of hand, but it is only, after all, ten years. Perhaps if we lived rather longer lives we might come to see centuries, and millenia in the same way as for the Earth.