Leafing through the Old Farmer’s Almanac while waiting for one of the plump cinnamon rolls at Fort Lauderdale’s LoveLee Bakeshop (tops on my list of favorite South Florida bakeries right now), I see that the last few days of summer are upon us this weekend. The fall equinox in the Northern Hemisphere will come on Monday (at 2:19 p.m., if you have money on it) — when the sun crosses the Earth’s celestial equator, as daylight and night reach equilibrium, marking the beginning of autumn.

Just a reminder that no matter what we’re doing to each other, the Earth continues to spin on its axis with the same predictable, mathematical precision of the eons. In our narrow-minded obsession to define winners and losers in this moment, time is the great equalizer, and it is undefeated.

THURSDAY

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