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…the creek is a reminder that we do not live in a simulation — a streamlined world of products, results, experiences, reviews — but rather on a giant rock whose other life-forms operate according to an ancient, oozing, almost chthonic logic. Snaking through the midst of the banal everyday is a deep weirdness, a world of flowerings, decompositions, and seepages, of a million crawling things, of spores and lacy fungal filaments, of minerals reacting and things being eaten away — all just on the other side of the chain-link fence.

∆ Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing

Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing

sharing time
lost time
to gain some time
a waste of time
to have time
free time
to take time
keeping time
grounding in time

Kevin Lynch, What Time is This Place
Kevin Lynch, What Time is This Place
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Something I heard an archaeologist say in Oslo about deep time returns to me: Time isn’t deep, it is always already all around us. The past ghosts us, lies all about us less as layers, more as drift. […] The problem is not that things become buried deep in strata – but that they endure, outlive us, and come back at us with a force we didn’t realise they had. […] We all carry trace fossils within us – the marks that the dead and the missed leave behind. Handwriting on an envelope; the wear on a wooden step left by footfall; the memory of a familiar gesture by someone gone, repeated so often it has worn its own groove in both air and mind: these are trace fossils too. Sometimes, in fact, all that is left behind by loss is trace – and sometimes empty volume can be easier to hold in the heart than presence itself.

∆ Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Ti…

“Landscape is a moment in time.”
- Lyn Hejinian

there is romance in taking the time.

taking the time to walk
taking the time to read
taking the time to cook an elaborated meal
taking the time to listen to a piece of music
taking the time to colour in a circle

taking the time to notice
taking the time to wonder
taking the time to listen
taking the time to think
taking the time to fall in love

there is romance in taking the time
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“Most of us are caught in the habit of thinking of escape as a way toward the sacred, that the sacred lies in the distance, that if we can leave the mundane and the banal behind then we will find the sacred. But I think the sacred is more pervasive, more fugitive than just something that is exterior to the conditions we want to leave behind…

I feel invited, I feel lead and inspired to ask if quietude, if rest, if fugitivity isn’t a space of reckoning with the banal, isn’t a space of teasing out the sacred from the mundane, isn’t a space of actually noticing that our imagination of what the sacred looks like actually gets in the way of our transformation … and that we can be enlisted in ways that are surprising and unexpected, to slow down.

And it is not our work to do that, to come up with a final answer for how to do that. It is our work to be ready for when it calls us.”

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
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