April 4, 2006

Events

It just came in on the wireless early this morning that Wednesday (that’s actually tomorrow) at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 AM, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. Those who make it their business to know about things like this say that such will never happen again. Ever. Ever. Ever.

These kinds of announcements consume me with excitement, especially when they’re veritably right now and not six centuries into a future more or less beyond my bioscope.

The cosmos, of course, could care less. But to anthropomorphize some more, to be human at all is in a way to give the universe a voice and a timekeeper. It is to give it a present, an occasion in all the seeming infinitude of space/time for it to become aware of its awesome self. We know precious little about its past and can only speculate about its future, but, at least, we know this much about its now and the way we share the precious gift of being part with it.

Naturally, when I learned this about tomorrow’s early morn, I could hardly wait to share it. So I went rushing in at breakfast to tell CP.

“Yes,” she said. “And yesterday was the only opening day for baseball ever in 2006.” We have a profoundly complementary domestic relationship.

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