December 2024 Create Challenge: Turn Back the Clock
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December 2024 Create Challenge: Turn Back the Clock
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Turn backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for tonight!
– Elizabeth Akers Allen
Winter is the season of tale-telling. The fabric of spacetime is thin – especially now, when every jill and john is trying to convince us that things were different not-so-long-ago in ways that things were probably never different. So why not take advantage and dance in the eddies of the spacetime continuum? Sounds like a plan to us.
Turn backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
And it will be yesterday tomorrow night.
– Snarky tailgater, author uncertain1
However you want to parse it, the flow of time can be a bother. Especially if the here and now is being a pain and making us wish it was there and then instead. So join us in summoning up a better time and place to be than in the shank end of 2024.
Do you mourn the medieval grace of iron clothing? Do you feel that the horse-and-buggy days were especially romantic? (Ask the horse, says Izzy Himmelfarb.) Is there a particular December that you can remember? We want to know.
Do some research: document a remarkable December.
Summon up a memory: share your anecdotes of Decembers past. Got a favourite recipe from the past? We'd love to try it.
Be creative: show us your art. Read us your poem. Tell us your short story.
Put your memory to work. It's better than worrying about tomorrow.
