What is the Solstice Project?
What is the Solstice Project? That probably remains to be seen. I have been thinking about how we move through time, and how time moves around us. We all have developed our own ways of joking about time in the post- (or almost post-)pandemic era. One of my friends has taken to saying "ten years ago" for anything that happened. "Oh, we've been dating for ten years." "Oh, I haven't seen him in ten years." Oh, it's been about ten years since we last traveled to ..." You fill in the blank. During the pandemic, we realized more clearly than ever that we "fix" our memories with the help of the calendar. Holidays, family gatherings, annual conferences, trips for work or for fun. The easiest way to remember something is to attach it to some event. And then you know when it happened relative to everything else. I imagine that not everyone cares the way I do about time. But being a literary historian means that it matters to me what happe...