PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 17 FEBRUARY + 28 DAYS + STILL CHILLY + OUR 79TH ISSUE {quickpunch} Start Up + Head over to New Orleans for an exciting Super Bowl on Sunday, February 9. + Go beyond chocolates and candles to deliver some real love on February 14. + Celebrate the birthday of Founding Father George on Presidents Day, February 22. + Late in the month, to our annual surprise, fruit trees are bursting with blooms. Venture Out + SWEETEN your afternoon with chocolate tastings and seminars at the Valentine’s Choco-Stroll in downtown Los Altos on February 8. downtownlosaltos.org + HEAT things up this Valentine’s Day by kneading artisanal bread with your paramour at Devil’s Canyon Brewing in San Carlos on February 14 at 6PM. grainbakers.com + LOOK through the artist’s lens at Second Nature: Photography in the Age of Anthropocene. The Cantor Museum’s latest exhibition opens February 26 at Stanford University. stanford.edu Here we are, settling into another year, and while the date has changed, our lives carry on unabated. The phrase “Where did the time go” has an answer, and that is: “In the past.” Time is like a relentlessly speeding bullet ferociously pushing forward with no way to pause it. It begs: Does the present really exist? We can “see” the future ahead, even though it might change in an instant. The past is there for us to uncover, but the present is a glimpse, a microsecond of time, that swiftly disappears. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” — LUCILLE BALL welcome back
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