"The most important events make no stir on their first taking place, nor indeed in their effects directly. They seem hedged about by secrecy. It is concussion, or the rushing together of air to fill a vacuum, which makes a noise. The great events to which all things consent, and for which they have prepared the way, produce no explosion, for they are gradual, and create no vacuum which requires to be suddenly filled; as a birth takes place in silence, and is whispered about the neighborhood, but an assassination, which is at war with the constitution of things, creates a tumult immediately."
Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Hallett Peak peeks up through the mist, with lichen covering a rock in the foreground; Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; December 14, 2012. Will this be the case with tomorrow's event? Will the end of the Mayan Calendar be similar to the winter Solstice - initiating a series of changes that will manifest themselves only gradually?
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