July 23, 2021

A new start.

Every day is a new start…duh… Yeah, well, this is a thing all creatures know by observation. Some of us know it by experimentation. Some of us know it because we are really good mathemeticians and scientists and astronomers. Some of us know each day is new because we repair clocks and have a notion that time can be measured, which gives us wacky ideas about the ever-changing nature of the present. Some of us have read about each day being new and didn’t bother to question the author’s veracity. Some of us know our truth by belief? Some of us think God planned it that way and some of us use that ‘new day’ ism as a motivating or inspiring factor. A reason to keep on a-goin’. Some of us just ignore that every day is a new day and pick up in the morning where we left off in what was our night.

Sometimes, I am an ignoring fool and just pick up a day where I left off the previous one. While clinging to the concerns of the previous workday, I often don’t notice the sun coming up and that it might be a new day. Not today. Here I am again, in the throes of change, bouncing in the wake of my past life, hopeful for something new, eager for change. Sigh. I am trying to find my daily writing routine again. Now that I can sit for hours in Starbucks, as before, I am excited that my ‘flow’ return. I have my ‘daily assessment reports’ to make. I have things to say. I have things to notice. My tooth is hurting vaguely. Ooops, I used an adverb. So naughty. The skinny young feller who stares at me a bit is actually pretty well built for a barista. or…no! that is Simon, the built guy! One of this morning’s other notes is that a younger than me customer fella is wearing gay-looking sandals. They are open back and white leather with a thin sole. Very feminine. Hmm. Interesting.

Today, I woke to a similar sun but I feel different. Perhaps, it is the same sun from yesterday and perhaps not – I don’t have proof of my own and must trust the general knowledge on that. Suppose it were not the same sun? This is nearly a moot question, there being what they call ’empirical’ evidence that it is, indeed, the same sun as yesterday. But, suppose it were a new sun? From some other galaxy. It crept in during the night while the last one slipped out of sight. The government’s tests and measurements and calculations were incorrect? Nobody noticed anything while on the International Space Station? Perhaps a scientist turned his back at just the right moment, allowing the newsun to slip into place without fanfare. It is not impossible for each scientist to look away at exactly the same time, as a group. There may be a certain, to date undetected, element of space and time that allows for all eyes that are in space at the same moment to be diverted for a brief second. This, I submit, has happened on each of the occasions astronauts have been above the atmosphere and able to observe the sun at every moment.

This is possible. The sun could have slipped a ringer in if you consider the great speed at which such things as suns are clocked. Perhaps the ringer is in sync with the sun of the previous day, just behind it and invisible to the naked telescope. At just the right instant, the previous sun, the one we saw yesterday, slips away or maybe just backs up, fading ghost-like through and letting the new cloud of burning gas take the primary position. Maybe it’s just the two suns, back and forth? In order to be open to such a whack idea, it is necessary to suspend some belief and accept other belief or proof to imagine that this day shows us another sun, not the same one we watched turn colour and slide down yesterday evening.

So. There are at least two suns, one in front of the other and, being clouds of gas, they pass through each other at some point during the day. It is unnoticed. This is a new fact and has negative consequences when you accept it. One down side to accepting this new revelation is that there will be social grief. You will be denied in church, shunned on the street, laughed at in the grocery… asked to leave Starbucks when you can’t stop laughing at your own suggestions?