Behind the Ironic Column

One of the conventions used in old movies to show the passage of time was to show the days on a calendar rapidly flipping by.  One of my calendars (I’m somewhat obsessive about them so I have several) has decided to change its own pages.  The only thing is that it’s going back in time.  It’s May now and there’s a perfectly nice May picture on the photo calendar I made from some of my Oregon snapshots. 

So I was a little surprised to walk into that room a few days ago and notice that the snow picture from January was featured.  That seemed odd.  I know I’ve been turning the months because I remember thinking about the May picture when I turned to it.  Of course this has been an unusually cold spring, but even so I don’t think it was that much like January.  So I fixed the page back to May and made sure the pages were on the hook correctly.  Just an anomaly.  Yesterday I walked through that room again, and again the calendar is back to January.

Now I’m wondering if someone is sending me a message.  Did I forget to do something in January that I should have done?  Was there something left hanging from a relationship in January that should have been resolved by now?  I know I didn’t do the projects I had intended to do — but I’ve never seen a calendar go backward from something like undone projects.  If so, mine would probably be flipping frantically back for several years, a couple of months wouldn’t do it.  I did do other things instead of those projects, and they’ll eventually get done, or dropped altogether.  No reason for time to start bending the wrong way.  It does nag at me though.  Am I missing some other signal that will suddenly become clear later on?  And why only this calendar — maybe it’s something to do with the photos themselves or the fact that I took them.  I should check with my sister to see if the calendar I made for her has any problem staying on the correct page. 

I took the calendar down, re-secured the pages, and put it back up — displaying May. We’ll see if it stays put this time. 

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