memory and moment

The pieces of your memory can and are rearranged on a constant basis to validate an imagined construction of whom you believe yourself to be and what you imagine yourself capable of. Understanding this can afford freedom and peace.

siting under an umbrella listening to the pitter patter of water on canvas in a rare summer rain shower while watching the ever changing painting like sky and clouds at sunset feeling the temperature drop

the letter E)

many memories of my past come to me in black and white

yet the memories of certain teachers persist in color

it is these people and places

which form lines

which the axis of my being rotates

animals around town

a sea of asphalt and concrete

black at night

mist flowing through the air

rubber on the ground

pumping up and down

wind breath wind breath

it is subtle, yet its here

all around & in the ground

(hummingbirds, skunks, rabbits, june bugs, bobcat, shaggy parasol mushrooms)

intention and attention

thoughts are things

like bubbles in a stream

rising and passing with time

they are not you...

actions are movements

within the physical flow

always happening

they are not you...

intention and attention

powerful in their simplicity

perception (link)

time periods (link)

It is an interesting exercise thinking of time periods. Thinking of time periods I begin to search for physical and mental artifacts that delineate one from another.

For instance one time period could be identified as "before space exploration" and "after space exploration". Once human beings left the thin atmosphere of earth and voyaged ever so slightly into the cosmic ocean the human experience was altered. From the pictures of earth as viewed from space to landing human beings on our satellite the moon mankind's perception of possibilities and place were restructured.

It does not seem that most have had the realization that they are in fact themselves living in a time period. As a result of living in "their" time period they accept certain ideas and actions rarity questioning importance, validity, etc...

Our aspirations are in many instances not truly our own. Yet inherited from the particular time periods that we exist within.

time is an experience (link)

The Experience and Perception of Time

First published Mon Aug 28, 2000; substantive revision Tue Nov 17, 2009

We see colours, hear sounds and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, it seems, are perceived through a particular sense. Others, like shape, are perceived through more than one sense. But what sense or senses do we use when perceiving time? It is certainly not associated with one particular sense. In fact, it seems odd to say that we see, hear or touch time passing. And indeed, even if all our senses were prevented from functioning for a while, we could still notice the passing of time through the changing pattern of our thought. Perhaps, then, we have a special faculty, distinct from the five senses, for detecting time. Or perhaps, as seems more likely, we notice time through perception of other things. But how?

time

Time is a non-spatial continuum in which events appear to occur in apparently irreversible order.