What’s the Shape of Your Year?

Jim Mason
2 min readFeb 26, 2021

Can you see it?

I used to think that everyone thought of the months of the calendar year the same way. To me it has always been “obvious” that they were arranged in a circle — 12 hours, 12 months. Furthermore, we go through them clockwise, “of course”. The light is above and the dark is below, which for me living in the northern hemisphere puts sunny July at the top and the winter solstice at the bottom. The…

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Jim Mason

I study language, cognition, and humans as social animals. You can support me by joining Medium at https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership