For the word "advent" literally means "the coming," and in this sense, these weeks in December are indeed a time of "advent" for all of us -- whether we consider ourselves religious or not.
Remember those Advent calendars many of us made as kids?
This is what happens with the Advent of the Spirit to alert us, to remind us, and to invite us into this new world that has erupted, that has shown up on the scene of an old stage".
For some of us, the advent of a reasonably realtime message bus over public networks has changed something about the existing infrastructure in ways that are not yet important to a broad section of Internet dwellers.
It's also the case that the advent of streaming channels allows us to curate our own television.
The advent of film sound gave us the infinite blessing of composers like Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann, but it took away the perfect trinity of the oncoming train, the imperilled heroine, and the trembling upper register of an upright piano.
With the advent of U.S. Route 104 (US 104), NY 31 was realigned west of Rochester to follow most of its modern routing.
Democratization of Education: The advent of distance learning allows us to choose and change regularly who we want to become, who we want to be with and what direction we'll go over and over throughout our lifetime.
With the advent of techniques that allow us to continuously monitor peripheral perfusion, we could further shift our focus to maintaining normal perfusion in nonvital organs, such as skin, subcutaneous tissue and muscle.
Over time, and increasingly so with the advent of smart technology that keeps us hyper-wired 24/7, many of us have come to believe that being "on-the-go" constantly is the only way to prove our value.
