Just in case you might not have noticed, normal years have 365 days. But.... here I am putting out blog post #366. Since I put out one blog post per day, starting with #1 on each January 1st, and since I number subsequent blog postings accordingly, one of two things must be true: (1) I have screwed up in numbering my blog posts, which I have done before; or (2) this is an official "Leap Year," which means that 2024 has an "extra day."
As it turns out, that second possibility happens to be true. 2024 is, indeed, a "Leap Year," and 2024 does, in fact, have an extra day. Our "Leap Day," the place where that "extra" day appeared on our calendar, actually happened back in February, a month that had 29 days, instead of the 28 days that February normally has. If I seem amazed, here at the end of this year, it's only because I paid no attention at all to that extra day I lived in February
I won't face this "Leap Year" issue again for another four years - or maybe I'll never have to face it again. That will depend, of course, on whether or not I am still around and writing blog posts four years from now. Ojalá! It is also true, of course, that whether or not I'll have to deal with another "Leap Year" will depend on whether the world itself will still be around four years from now. There are definitely uncertainties ahead - and I am thinking that this is more true now than in some of the earlier years I have lived through. Perhaps you might have gotten that idea from my blog posting yesterday.
In general, I tend to be pretty optimistic about our future (since "possibility" is my category, as I often proclaim). Whatever is ahead, though, there is one certainty for me. On every December 31st, every year, leap year or not, I get to celebrate the fact that my daughter was born on that day. That is really wonderful, and I really LOVE December 31st.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SONYA!!!
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