With that peculiar elasticity that seems to mark our relationship with time these days the first month of 2011 disappeared into history leaving us with the confusing sense that it has been simultaneously both a long and a short month. On the one hand it is hard to believe that the beginning of the year [...]

January can sometimes feel like a long month as we wait for the light and power of the sun to return, however this year it seems to have slipped past with an almost unseemly haste. In a few short days we will be in the month of February, which brings with it the festival of [...]