Deep Time
Swimming in the liminal space that connects past, present and future
Deep Time
Caught in the fast lane of a time highway, I feel time rushing past me like the landscape through a side window. Moving ever onwards, I fret I’ve missed an exit, the route to time better spent. There are exits that give me the chance to leave, yet I only take them as a brief meandering detour before speeding back into the flow of traffic that pulls... See more
Emma Proud • Getting off the ‘time highway’: reconnecting with the rest-of-nature through the wheel of the year
Cyclical & seasonal
I Take Time To Drink My Tea
In the quiet moments before dawn, when the world should still be wrapped in the gentle embrace of darkness, millions of us are jolted awake by the harsh cry of alarm clocks. This daily violence against our natural rhythms is not merely an inconvenience—it is a symptom of a deeper malady that plagues our modern existence, one that manifests in three... See more
Shawn Westcott • The Cycles of Modern Life: Urgency, Control, and the Illusion of Comfort
“Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?”
— 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘐𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦: 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴, written by late Palestinian author and poet, Mahmoud Darwish.
The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much ... See more
Back to the Point — I’m Moving Towards Using Obsidian.
Time is not slipping through our fingers, time is here forever, it is we who are slipping through the fingers of time.
David Whyte • Time
The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a snake eating its own tail that symbolises an everlasting cycle.