on ritual gathering habits of magical creatures experiencing the passage of time
cir·cu·i·tous
/sərˈkyo͞oədəs/
adjective
/sərˈkyo͞oədəs/
adjective
- (of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way.
"the canal followed a circuitous route"
circuitous definition - Google Search
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Hello friend, nautical traveler
On a river flowing in between dreaming eyes,
I've found you suddenly,
Surrendering to wondrous, compulsive ritual,
The very wind caught by your sails tickles and grinds the land below
Perched atop the icy tower,
We see where the path divides,
And we know not what we will find, but we are learning to seek
-seawaters
We’ll never get the upper hand in our relationship with the moments of our lives because we are nothing but those moments. To “master” them would first entail getting outside of them, splitting off from them. But where would we go? “Time is the substance I am made of,” writes Jorge Luis Borges. “Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
🌊 Cerulean waves
Boiled down to the froth
The foamy wake of deep blue futures
Bubbling ankle deep at the shoreline
Splashing opalescence
Lucidity of the mercurial surf
-seawaters
When Cú Chulainn eventually realised that he had been mortally wounded, he tied himself to a large stone so that he could die standing up, face to face with his enemies. There he remained for three days, still capable of striking fear into his foes. No one dared approach him. It was only when the Morrigan, in the form of a raven, perched on Cú... See more
The Morrigan in Celtic Mythology
de·cou·ple
/dēˈkəpəl/
verb
/dēˈkəpəl/
verb
- separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- make the interaction between (electrical components) so weak that there is little transfer of energy between them, especially to remove unwanted AC distortion or oscillations
"the mountings effectively decouple movements of the engine from those of the wheels"