Sunday, December 15, 2013

fresh start



            “In the beginning everyone is a beginner.  That’s the first thing.  Some think the conventions of time can save you if you get a handle on the arm of the clock.  You only need that if you’re talking the thin kind of time that rushes past you so quickly that you feel you might go over the rapids.   That thin time really slides but of course it’s no good.  No good at all.  And besides, now people just get swept away.  Now there’s not even the little hand to grab hold of.  Digital  changed all that.  Now they’re just doing some serious numbers crunching.  Try to survive that.” 
            “First we got turned around chasing the spheres in the sky.  Then from the sun and moon going through all their phases like the stilted, speedy rhythm of time lapse photography folks got dizzy. They had to sit down till the swirling settled.  Something had to be done.  Someone called for organization”
            “Too bad everybody forgot about the options we had.  Now so many are just rushing down the road hoping boulders don’t drop a dime on them.  Hoping it ain’t their time yet.   Thin time, what’s known as linear time tends to pull us into pieces.  We become fragmented and even separated from our own experiences.  Our conception of time is now a pale, melted Dali watch.  There are deeper layers of time, richer than this surface tick tock telling of events.  Do not deny the shadows.  The spaces between.”


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