April: Time is passin' like a solar eclipse (Alternate title: Death and Taxes)
Random: Total solar eclipse in Central New York Close to total! I’d been anticipating this once-in-a-lifetime-event for YEARS. The next total eclipse to visit the state of NY (and travel through NYC) will not be until May of 2079, at which time I (hopefully) will have made it to the ripe old age of 95 years. I’ll hope to see the NYC eclipse in my golden years, but this was the only one I’ll ever see in my own home. So, this is the existential rabbit hole my mind went down: I was thinking about the people who had observed the last total eclipses, and what the world was like then. Go back two total eclipses in NYS, and it’s hundreds of years before the founding of the United States. In some ways the world is drastically different, and yet there we all were, staring up at the sky in wonder in much the same way (probably?) as the witnesses way back when. I was at my family home in Sylvan Beach for the eclipse, and I was wondering if our house will even remain when the next total eclips