Forty One Trips Around the Sun

Half-way to nothing.

Half-way to nothing.

Photo by Michael G on Unsplash

On October 27, 2023, at 3:02 AM, the rock I’m standing on completed its forty-first trip around a giant ball of “fire” in space. That’s about it.

You’d be forgiven for not realizing the event occurred since the rock didn’t notice or seem to care. In fact, most of the other seven billion humans who also ha…