Time is a Ball of Yarn

Time is more than a man-made construct, and it isn’t linear

graphic by the author

Time is often portrayed as a straight line when it’s obviously a ball of yarn.

Clocks and calendars try to capture time, to tame it, but it only corrals a small part of the concept — seconds into minutes, into hours, into days, into months, into years.

A creature that lives in a void with no sight, sound, or smell will measure time by the beat of their heart and the breath they inhale and release.

The nonliving keep time by decaying into smaller pieces of themselves that pile into pyramids — hour glasses building sand castles.

Time can’t be killed or wasted. It’s a vehicle that pulls us from idea to idea. You’ve spent a minute of it reading this little piece.

Now it’s time for you to hop aboard the time machine or, even better, build one of your own!