Dear Bloggers one and all

I would like to wish everyone in our blogging world and your families and friends all the very best for Christmas and the New Year.

If not an adherent to this period in spiritual terms, then allow me to offer every good wish for the festive season.

We are coming toward mid-day in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Every new day begins around Samoa – at Millenial Island. Samoa is in the mid-afternoon period of December 25. 

Around 100 kilometres away, the time at Pago Pago in American Samoa is 2.08 pm on Thursday 24 December.

It is interesting to contemplate Samoa on the downhill run on Christmas Day, while its American neighbour is a good nine hours away from celebrating the start of Christmas Day.

I sometimes wonder if it would be possible to straddle the International Date Line, with one foot in today and the other in yesterday; or one foot in today, the other in tomorrow?

Fast forward a week and contemplate the positioning on one foot in 2024 – New Year’s Eve, and the other in 2025 – New Year’s Day.

Permutations are such interesting concepts with which to play.

All the best to everyone for the reflective time of 2024 and the anticipation we may have in contemplating 2025.

Regards

Henry Gray

December 25 2024