The Imago Machine (9/10/19): the new year always begins in September

on starting new projects.

The Jewish High Holy Days are late this year; we can blame the lunar calendar, which has got thirteen months in it every so often, including right now, so that days and seasons stay vaguely where they ought to be. But it is nevertheless strange to think of Rosh Hashanah beginning the last week of September, instead of this week or next, as it usually do…