This is the extra day that makes 2024 a Leap Year. If I cared, I’d google the original and reason for it, but I really don’t. If you do, look it up yourself and tell me if it was worth it. While supremely uninterested in the reasons for it, I’m fascinated by the fact of it, the same way I’m fascinated by the extra hour of time we trick ourselves into thinking we get with Daylight Saving Time (coming up on March 10). The idea of a whole extra day that appears once every four years feels like some literary machination to get characters into or out of trouble in service of an otherwise non-existent narrative. These days life is tense enough without adding more drama to it, and perhaps that’s why I’m not so keen to discover the origin of the Leap Year.
Instead, I’m doing a different kind of leaping – with a few links leaping to sunnier and funnier days.
Last summer began in hopeful fashion, and it required a second part to begin.
Summer in shades of gray, also requiring a second part.
Another summer post that needed another summer post that needed another summer post…
Summer begins where the boys are.
