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Thinking About the Equinox

“Equinox” is a curious word. While its definition is straightforward, merely meaning a date when the day and night are of equal duration, something else is implicit in it.

Something implicitly misleading.

Something we suspect of concealing something sinister.

The “equi-” prefix duplicitously suggests that we’re in the middle of something, but we’re not. W…