The Jōmon People of Ancient Japan: A Blueprint for Hope
When considering an ancient civilization, especially one that has been largely unexplored, it is easy to form ideas based on unexamined assumptions. The phrase ‘Lost Civilization’ probably brings to mind megaliths buried in a desert or hidden beneath ocean waves. This is the vivid image conjured by Percy Bysshe Shelley in his classic poem,
Ozymandias:
Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
There’s really no need to go over what you won’t be able to do this New Year’s Eve, it’s pretty much what you weren’t able to do on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Still, we all know that NYE is unique from those other two holiday season mainstays; while Thanksgiving and Christmas tend to be about gathering at home with family, New Year’s Eve is many times about getting out and celebrating, adult-style, often with complete strangers, sometimes even giving those complete strangers a midnight kiss… on the mouth.
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