It was much easier for ancestors, primarily dealing with day and night, the phases of the moon, and the seasons. But then someone had to invent the infernal clock. Now, we're down to things like Instagram, running our daily lives and atomic clocks parsing time into minutia for our delight.
We invented this thing called time. We needed a sense of measure, I guess. How much more, we ask. That much less, we answer. For as your well chosen words express, to live without time would be to just be. My...what a concept. Kudos.
So much anguish, Michael. I think our forefathers let Calvin define a Latin term, carpe, as an enslaving aggressive word, a means of compelling a populace to work at dreary unpleasant tasks. Others have put forth a different connotation, 'enjoy' rather than 'seize' ... seen this way, our dance need not be so dreaded ...
Making every day, every minute, second count is a juggling act and one most of us are not equipped to deal with. If we can just get through life without harming anymore we can count on our lives as being successful.
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
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I'm enjoying every minute of it…
Ron