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Half and Half

Not the mysetrious white liquid that you might add to your cup of caffiene in the morning.  But an acknowledgement of being around on a planet that today (for most of us) will see equal parts day and night.  As in 12 hours of Day Time vs. 12 hours of Night.  It is sort of academic on what it really means or how one calculates it to be so precise but suffice to say that twice each year the sun passes over the equator in its celestial journey and rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west.


Thusly today marks the Spring Equinox.  That is because I live in the northern hemisphere and as imagined by cartographers and geographers millenia ago, the equator divides our planet in two imaginary hemis.  For those that find themselves in the southern part of this oblate it is the Autumnal Equinox or marks the arrival of Autumn or Fall.


So what of it?


Well I got to dwelling on how the word equinox came to be and what it could morph into or be interpreted as if you are on a bad phone line and describing it to someone - as I am oft wont - given lack of meaningful pastimes.


Equi-nox according to some is a derivative of Equal and Nox (or night) so to mean equal distribution of night with daylight.


General Motors once (and perhaps still) built a car by this name.  I wonder if it meant it only works half the time?  It could be misheard as a gender bender or oxymoronic name for someone who did not know what Equinox meant- as in an 'Equine Ox' or 'A Queen Ox'.


So hear's to this wonderful marker in our journey through time and space.  Salut!

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