Kristen Lippincott

Our calendar is based on shared cultural, emotional, religious assumptions and inheritances.

One could throw it out, have a decimal calendar or base all of our time on ticks of the cesium clock.

But the truth of the matter is, it works with the fact that we are on a rotating and revolving rock that happens to go around the sun, that happens to have a moon that goes around us.

And our calendar is best able to accommodate the reality of where we live on Earth.

I wouldn't call it silly.

I think the problem is when one thinks of any of the ways we divide and mark time as having an ultimate reality.

It doesn't.

It's not a question of precision equaling truth.

It's a question of how we manage to approximate a seasonal, a yearly, a monthly cycle.

And the best way is our quote-unquote silly calendar.