Deep Time ♾️
Swimming in the liminal space that connects past and future
Deep Time ♾️
And it is literally without time, it is timeless, as is all Chinese classical poetry. Literary Chinese knows no tense. “Every sentence in The Tao and the Power refers as much to the past as to the present.”
Lao Tzu • Tao Te Ching | The Essential Translation
In Greek mythology, Chronos was “Father Time” and he devoured his own children. One son got away and rose above time to become a God; this was Zeus. He formed an uprising against time and became the king of the pantheon. I think the Gods preferred an alternate type of time called “Kairos” a fleeting moment that was pregnant with opportunity. It’s n
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A Cloud Never Dies
Cocooned in metal, hurtling down the time highway, we become spectators rather than participants in the world around us. The landscape blurs into the background as scenery, rather than a crucial, living, breathing part of our existence. Our focus narrows to what’s ahead of us, to what needs to get done.
This speed and insulation creates an emotional... See more
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Emma Proud • Getting off the ‘time highway’: reconnecting with the rest-of-nature through the wheel of the year
TIME IS MONEY
You're wasting my time.
This gadget will save you hours.
I don't have the time to give you.
How do you spend your time these days?
That flat tire cost me an hour.
I've invested a lot of time in her.
I don't have enough time to spare for that.
You're running out of time.
You need to budget your time.
Put aside some time for ping pong.
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Lakoff, George • Metaphors We Live By
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
The Cycles of Modern Life: Urgency, Control, and the Illusion of Comfort
Linear time versus radial time
Panarchy of Adaptive Cycles, adapted and expanded from Gunderson & Holling (2001)