PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 29 JANUARY 2024 + 31 DAYS + THE NEW YEAR + OUR 66TH ISSUE {quickpunch} Start Up + Join eight billion planetary soulmates in marking a new year on January 1. + Feeling far from the warming sun? We reach perihelion on January 2. + Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 15. + Howl at the Wolf Moon, the first full moon of the year, on January 25. Venture Out + HUM along to iconic movie soundtracks with the Peninsula Symphony on January 12 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center. + REFLECT on self-discovery through adversity with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson’s one-man show How I Learned What I Learned. January 17-February 3 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. + DISCOVER hidden gems January 19 as esteemed nature writer Charles Hood shares insights from trails less traveled at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. What is time, really, other than a made-up division of the earth rotating around the sun and the earth spinning about? And yet, we mark our days and years with labels and names and sentiments. We finish the calendar on an emotional high, so that the transition to the next year is often fraught with letdown. “How did it fly by so fast?” we ask. How much better for us to think of the excitement that something new brings (new adventures, new beginnings, new friends) and to embrace the brisk air that ushers in a fresh start. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” —Josiyah Martin welcome back
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