Time

Imbued belief
Single complete
Embracing whole

Chemical erosion indicates time passage.

“The universe can only be a system of laws if phenomena have passed beforehand through the filter of an intellect.” – Henri Bergson

Revision conditions
Before metaphysics
Never statically complete

Forces at work create random transcendental corroborations.

“The connection between the experience and the human being having the experience is ‘contingent’.” – Edmund Husserl

Time extemporizes
Makeshift contrivance
Pressing need

Parallel temporal domains aggregate.

“Our projection of our psychic states into space in order to form a discrete multiplicity is likely to influence these states themselves and to give them in reflective consciousness a new form, which immediate perception did not attribute to them.” – Henri Bergson

Represent states
Serve to distinguish
Becoming in general

Energy matter space and time in continuous movement.

“In order that action may always be enlightened, intelligence must always be present in it; but intelligence, in order thus to accompany the progress of activity and ensure its direction, must begin by adopting its rhythm.” – Henri Bergson

Outcome of relations
Different bits of matter
Distinct volumes of space

Slowly the swamp reveals its essence.

“Recognize that experience has its indubitable right and that, on the basis of experience, undoubtedly valuable findings of endless abundance are attainable.” – Edmund Husserl

Rare remnants
Ship wreck
Change circumstances

A fossil from the steampunk era.

“There is something which in itself is one, and which is more than the logical aggregate of entities occupying points within the volume which the unit occupies.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Outer Banks
Snow event
Sorcery

Infrequent atmospheric episodes stimulate creativity.

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Night descends
Sandstone formations
Monument canyon adventure

On a cool and windy evening, John and I ventured out to a prime Monument Canyon overlook to work with time.

“I came here last year and found these canyons, and they feel like the heart of the world to me. I’m going to stay and build trails and promote this place, because it should be a national park.” – John Otto

Rugged cliffs
Scenic splendor
Imbue with meaning

Scanning an immense landscape for essential details involves serious contemplation over a tranquil duration.

“My mind wandered above its monitoring function into the fields of memory.” – Neil Peart

Distant past
Surface incising
Rock art

At the top of my first western slope hike was an ancient message.

“Symbols they were of an era that had gone into the dim past, leaving only these marks, forever unintelligible; yet while they stood, century after century, ineffaceable, reminders of the glory, the mystery, the sadness of life.” – Zane Grey