Time

Ephemeral

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”

— Frida Kahlo

Measuring Days

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity, and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

— Alan Watts (swissmiss)

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Time Exists

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”

— Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Trying to Remember

Trying to remember you
is like carrying water
in my hands a long distance.”

— Stephen Dobyns (via WeCroak)

Nothing New Under the Sun

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

— Ecclesiastes 1:9, New International Version

William Faulkner on the Past

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

— William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (via Stowe Boyd)

The point is, what I’m tryin’ to tell you is, it’s no use gettin’ soppy about how good things used to be. Most times, today is better, all right?”

— Proinsias Cassidy, “Hitler”, Preacher AMC

“The truth is that there are two ways in which the future can become obsolete. One is through the inability to imagine the New: in this model, the idea of building a Tower never occurs to us; we are content to stay on the ground. The other happens when the New becomes so perpetual and unrelenting, when the construction of the Tower becomes so consuming, that we no longer have the luxury or the inclination to look up… You cannot have a future without a sense of the past, and there is no quicker way to make both obsolete than by insisting on the urgency and the singularity of the present.”

— Meghan O’Gieblyn on deep time and Long Now’s 10,000-year clock (via Erica Avey)

129 // Dragging Days

The weather is still shit but the forecast only gets better from here.

It continues to be a long week but I’m trying to remember that time flying is no blessing. Dragging days means a long life. It means I’m not just alive but present. Time flies when your mind is somewhere else in some other time. Time flies when you aren’t living your life.

These entries are inspired by Thord D. Hedengren