not so many

The time has passed when one could/would be a true polymath.

future perfect

We improve by moving morally ahead, and by avoiding the retrospective trap of trying to correct the past.

two kinds of edge

Impossible to tell from this distance whether it’s the horizon or the edge of an abyss—we’ll have to get closer as fate requires.

dancing just the same

Standing in one place without moving for a long time is also dancing.

past forward

The past is useful only so far as its lessons can inflect the present and the future.

different times

There but for the chance of time, go I.

oncoming traffic of a kind

On the road we pass many things, but we often fail to notice time going by us in the opposite direction.

next day

It’s the next day that matters.

time feeds

The present eats into the future and its digestion is called experience.

wands not hands

I think the hands on a clock should be called wands, because there is a certain magic in the way they make things disappear.

is it over yet

I’m sorry, but it’s true, I was glancing at my watch during your 15 minutes.

facedeck

Shuffle the faces.

safe passage

I was so in love with my life I didn’t see it passing.

logos logged off

With nothing to show since the Bible, we can we assume God is afflicted with writer’s block.

not here nor there

In order to taxonomize, one must arrest. One must hold the thing still in time. But the static state is never the case, never the essence.

music is

Music: time singing.

no memory

Time hasn’t any memory. But we may call it history for the sake of convenience.

utilitarian time

Last time I looked the fifty dollar Timex told the same time as the fifty-thousand Rolex.

so over

Lots of things are ‘so over’ before I knew they’d started.

human measure

Time is human measure of change, be it creation or decay.