Time is the space where everything unfolds all at once. We do not move through time so much as we experience it from the particular point where we stand, aware only of the slice we occupy. It is the medium everything else occurs in, and we understand it remarkably poorly.
This domain explores our relationship with time in all its strangeness. Why it moves differently depending on what we are doing. How memory reconstructs rather than just records. What it means to live with awareness of impermanence. And the assumption we rarely question: that time is linear, and even so, we restrict it to move only in one direction. Forward.
But meaning often tends to run backwards. The significance of an encounter, a person, a place, an idea, frequently only becomes visible from what came after it. A conjunction that looked ordinary becomes the turning point only in retrospect. The future participates in defining what the past ultimately was. This is backward causality. It describes not only a theory of time but the way most meaningful things actually work. Essays here follow that backwards direction, asking what the ending reveals about the beginning.
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On Fascination
“They say they can’t see in the dark. I see a little more at night.” – written sometime around 2013. The fascination with the night sky, for me, has always been beyond ordinary. Whether it was crying as a toddler to sleep under the stars instead of in the comfort of my cosy room, asking…