Pulling threads

Notes and news from the present moment, on its swift way to becoming past.

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For the Time Being

Time, oh time … I am a time-being, a being in a complex relationship with time. Who among us is not?

I grieve the speed of time flying … except in October.

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a fresh start

I was reading yesterday in the I Ching, hexagram 32. Hêng, or “Duration.” This hexagram is made of two trigrams: The Gentle / Wind, below, and The Arousing / Thunder, above. How fascinating that two such dynamic natural forces, combined, could yield an association with union and constancy! But in this iconography, the explanation goes:

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Life Is Art Is Life

At the beginning of 2020, besides thinking about the yamas and niyamas, I chose a word to be my focal aspiration for the year. (Much more helpful than a resolution!) My word was “concordance,” which is to bring all parts together in harmony.

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