Beetles burrow through pine bark and leave behind a visible history; the series of now-points that create the paths of the past.  The truth that their past demonstrates is that is has no tangible beginning and no discernible end.  It is a tangle of time, as all time is.  We often mistake time as a linear sequence of events, each caused by the previous one.  It’s a source of frustration because time almost never acts in this way. When it seemingly does, it is really a tangle of events that we collapse into a single source as we zoom out and analyze what has landed us in the present. ~ü

Beetles burrow through pine bark and leave behind a visible history; the series of now-points that create the paths of the past.  The truth that their past demonstrates is that is has no tangible beginning and no discernible end.  It is a tangle of time, as all time is.  We often mistake time as a linear sequence of events, each caused by the previous one.  It’s a source of frustration because time almost never acts in this way. When it seemingly does, it is really a tangle of events that we collapse into a single source as we zoom out and analyze what has landed us in the present.

~ü

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