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№ 016 · a note

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:17:00 -0500

Rain before work, the kind that makes the street look varnished. I stood at the window longer than the coffee required. Nothing was decided in those minutes, but the day that followed was better for them, and I have stopped asking that kind of time to justify itself.

№ 015 · a note

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:09:00 -0500

Walked the long way home to finish a thought. It did not finish, but it loosened, which is often the useful part. Speed is good for errands and bad for questions.

On the honesty of clocks

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:04:00 -0500

Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. ¹

I keep returning to this line. The river image only works because the water is moving — a still river is just a pond. The honesty of a clock is the same: it refuses to let the moment pool.

Borges, J.L. (1946). A New Refutation of Time. ↩︎

Leads to the life-counter.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I know not.

Thu, 28 May 2026 07:26:00 -0500

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I know not.

— Augustine, Confessions XI

№ 003 · a note

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:24:00 -0500

The morning does not owe me clarity. I owe the morning attendance. On the days I remember which direction the debt runs, the work goes considerably better.

Nothing is ours except time.

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:57:00 -0500

Nothing is ours except time.

— Seneca, Letters to Lucilius