Equality Twice A Year

March 20th 11:44 am is the precise moment,
the earth's equinox occurs.

Where day and night are equal to one another...
and there is equality whether people want it or not.

When Spring arrives and we crash to our knees
for having survived yet another winter

...or is it just me who feels this way?

Some facts

* World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling,
celebrated every year on the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere,
the first day of autumn equinox in the southern.

* World Citizen Day occurs on the March equinox.

* Earth Day was initially celebrated on March 21, 1970,
on the equinox day. But was likely thought to be too pagan.
So it is now celebrated in various countries on April 22.

People in the Americas and Asia are accustomed to expecting the equinoxes to occur on March 21,
which did, in fact, occur quite frequently in the 20th century and will occur occasionally in the 21st century,
but due to some high precision clock that tracks these things (which is at least four hours in advance of any clock
in the Americas and as much as twelve hours behind Asian clocks), there will be no spring equinox later than March 20 in the Americas in the 21st century.

sproing!