Time Passages

February 7

You can watch the shadows come up the cliffs when the sun sets in Sedona. All the cliffs have lines created by layers of rock and form a timeline stretching back thousands and hundreds of thousands of years. The shadows climb this wall of time and the observer can get lost between the meanings of time’s passage just how much time is there when it is endless? Albert Einstein famously said we have time so that everything doesn’t happen at once. He said time was really a function of speed and that in dark holes time does not exist.

The shadows just claimed another few 100,000 years on its way up the cliff. I’m figuring the cliff has about 20 minutes left before the earth spins it entirely into the dark. Speed is a function of light, or at least that is how we measure according to the famous E=mc2 equation. That speeds has profound effect on mass, and at this point I get totally confused. So does time exist or did we make it up and everything is really happening all at once..... Ooohps, I’m wrong. The cliff has lost its sunlight. That was fast.

So this cliff will be here another 500,000 years after I have gone. Each day is less than a flash in that time frame.

If I am to become a better person I better get cracking. There is not much time for anything it seems. Or, better yet, maybe I am already a better person because.....