Another day, I walked as though there was no single timeline but an infinite number of intervals unfolding at once. High on the ridge with a panoramic view, I enjoyed a second of wonder in every hairpin, the two-minute task of walking to the next turn, the hour between refreshments, the day’s hike, the month of sunny weather, the year in India, the two years without you, the decade of economic recession, the century of the crisis of humanity, the millennium of the exponential, the ten thousand years of Western history, the four hundred thousand years of human evolution, the four billion years of life on Earth … all mingling in one present.
This reminded me of a paragraph from my book.
Another day, I walked as though there was no single timeline but an infinite number of intervals unfolding at once. High on the ridge with a panoramic view, I enjoyed a second of wonder in every hairpin, the two-minute task of walking to the next turn, the hour between refreshments, the day’s hike, the month of sunny weather, the year in India, the two years without you, the decade of economic recession, the century of the crisis of humanity, the millennium of the exponential, the ten thousand years of Western history, the four hundred thousand years of human evolution, the four billion years of life on Earth … all mingling in one present.
Thanks for provocative writing as usual!! Something from December I wrote that you might find interesting Venkat: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bnAy11Fxct1TjmkfMOZ7V4trD2Do2PqJ9haF-iUplnE/edit