{"id":8170,"date":"2021-09-22T00:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T04:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2021-09-22T01:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:01:59","slug":"september-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/september-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"September Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a whole other chapter written for today’s Convivio Book of Days and this first day of autumn by the almanac, but then my niece, Isabella, and I were chatting (the same niece who had a flying lesson for her 15th birthday in the most recent Convivio Dispatch<\/em><\/a>), about autumn and the equinox and she sent me a link to one of her favorite songs, one that reminds her of autumn. It’s Astor Piazzolla’s “Caf\u00e9 1930,” performed by Alexandra Whittingham and Esther Abrami. She and I wondered what is it, exactly, that can make a collection of sounds epitomize a season. We decided that we didn’t know what it was, but being unable to unlock that particular mystery makes it even better. I listened to her song myself, and she’s right: there is a hint of autumn about it. Then I decided all you need to know about today’s equinox is depicted in the photograph above, showing this old earth at its moment of equinox, which happens to be 3:40 PM here in Lake Worth. That’s Eastern Daylight Time. An equal share of day and night, of light and dark, across the planet: balance. That’s what the equinox is all about. Tomorrow things will begin to shift slightly as the Northern Hemisphere enters its darker half of the year and the Southern its lighter half.<\/p>\n

With the academic stuff out of the way, we can listen instead to Isabella’s song of autumn, Astor Piazzolla’s “Caf\u00e9 1930:”<\/p>\n