Kate Bingaman-Burt

Jan 5, 2025 | carly.substack.com | Carly Ayres |Kate Bingaman-Burt |Wendy MacNaughton |Kara Haupt

I’m a sucker for a fresh start. Not in a “new year, new me” way, but in the messy, iterative way of trying to gradually improve. Like a new pair of shoes or a blank page—a new year is full of potential. You could argue it’s just an arbitrary mile marker, a futile attempt to wrangle time into submission, but it stands as a feat of human ingenuity that we’re able to do so at all—using a system of leap years like this one—to within about 27 seconds alignment with the solar year.