Comments on: Advent 2009: “The Wrinkled Brow of Time,” Orson F. Whitney, Samuel B. Mitton http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/11/11/advent-2009-the-wrinkled-brow-of-time-orson-f-whitney-samuel-b-mitton/ Where our past is never very long ago Mon, 20 May 2013 20:48:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eric Boysen http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/11/11/advent-2009-the-wrinkled-brow-of-time-orson-f-whitney-samuel-b-mitton/comment-page-1/#comment-16961 Eric Boysen Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:13:24 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=4303#comment-16961 Thank you for posting this. I don’t think of Advent as leading up to New Years, but inevitably the celebration of Christmas gives way to the turning of the year.

Our cultural concept of New Years is a wild party celebrating the clockwork of the solar system and our luck in making another turn around the wheel. Oh and yes, write out your resolutions. I like the reflective tone of this that we should look back as well as forward and let our experience instruct our hopes for what is to come.

The last verse is a beautifully poetic expression of the law of the harvest, though Elysian fields seems a rather pagan expression to stand in for the Celestial Kingdom.

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