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[serene]

I didn't know the first day of spring had shifted to the 20th instead of the 21st. I am so out of touch with the cosmos.

Anyway, in googling the first day of spring, I realized that today is also the anniversary of the day [Edit: in 1990] I was assaulted and my whole life changed. I'm sort of happy that it's an afterthought these days. It certainly is one of the most important events of my life in terms of its impact on who I am today, but it's not a daily menace, or even a vague obsession nowadays. I think about it in roughly the way I think about the fact that we were a Navy family, or that my parents divorced, or that my brothers and I became Christians when I was in my teens -- it's part of what shaped me, but not a part of my daily reality.

Anyway, happy spring, one day late!

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

If you want to get geeky about it, the equinoxes and solstices are astronomically based and the Big Calendar And Clock In The Sky aren't as tidy as ours, so the dates shift back and forth a bit from year to year, depending partly on where you are in the world.

I love archaeoastronomy (http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/) for pinpointing the quarterly (and cross-quarterly, for those who are into that sort of thing) transitions right down to the minute, by Greenwhich Mean Time.

By their calculations, we passed into spring at 0:5:48 GMT on March 20, which (if my subtraction is right) put itat 10:48 p.m. on the 19th for us in the Western US.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Oh, and duh: *hugs* for healing.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you've come to the place you are.

[bayarts.livejournal.com]

xoxoxo

I, too, was assaulted....here in Oakland. Like you, I have put it into a category that fits in with the everyday things of life....but it was an experience that evoked profound change, to be sure.