Diving into Time
Arriving at my sister’s house in Canada, for my first visit in a dozen years, an odd familiarity arose, mixed with a feeling of...
Tag: time
Once Upon a Time
As with the question “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” we can ask “Which came first, time or this moment?” “Once upon...
Me and my Wall.
Am I standing or floating in the stream of time? “We do not let satisfaction be a reality. We try to achieve it in...
Why I like to Keep Appointments.
An appointment is like a buoy on the tossing surface of a lake. If I cancel a meeting with someone, I fear that it...
Waving to the Other Side
In times of yore (long before I was born), writers who set out to explore the mysteries of the past would invoke the Muse...
Consulting the Oracles of Time
In a memoir there is always a present time from which a shepherd, tending the flock of memories, sends out his rescue missions. And...
Remembering Betty
Last weekend I attended a memorial gathering for Betty Senescu. Her passing at age 92 brought together at least a hundred people. Judging from...
The Weaver is Being Woven.
In my own life, I have experienced recurrent changes in how my eyes viewed my world: in 1968, after a fire expelled me from...
Communications from the Field
“To live your life is not to cross a field.” Hamlet poem in Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak The edition of “Dr. Zhivago” that showed...
What’s Next?
Light is showing up among the branches visible through my sunroom windows. Not enough to predict what kind of day it will be, but...