The light hitting your eyes tonight is old, and you’re seeing it for the first time. Old things can still be new to you.

Age and freshness are not opposites. Something can exist long before you and still arrive brand new, because new is a fact about the meeting, not about the thing. A book from two centuries ago, a song your parents wore out: none of it is used up by having been met before.

Pick one old thing this week that everyone treats as settled and go at it fresh. Read it or play it without the summary first. Let it be new because it is new to you.