Another year has passed. Three-hundred-and-sixty-five days lived and experienced by all surviving humans, animals, plants, fungi, protozoans, and whatever other entities yet unknown to us. Of course, not all organisms who entered 2023 made it to 2024. Some survived days, others months. Some survive for mere moments, transiently passing from one plane to the next. Take for instance the dainty mayfly; the earthling with the shortest natural lifespan of any earthling. Once a mayfly emerges from its sub-imago form and…