Thursday, January 4, 2024

it’s all one thing

 






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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. 

The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.


—Ursula Le Guin
Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly



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Time says “Let there be”
every moment and instantly
there is space and the radiance
of each bright galaxy.

And eyes beholding radiance.
And the gnats’ flickering dance.
And the seas’ expanse.
And death, and chance.

Time makes room
for going and coming home
and in time’s womb
begins all ending.

Time is being and being
time, it is all one thing,
the shining, the seeing,
the dark abounding.


—Ursula Le Guin 1929-2018
Hymn to Time



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