I like to listen to time -- to the rhythmic sound of the clock ticking in a quiet house, bells from a distant church bell chiming or that synchronicity of my own heart noting "time" with every beat, keeping me awake to the gift of being alive and here and now.
Today time is marked by the arrival of a "time change" where here in the USA humans reconfigure the clocks to "fall back" for those States who participate in this odd custom of time "falling backwards" and "springing forwards." But what about our own capacity to connect to this moment of pristine awareness, where as William Blake writes we
"...hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."
How did time pass for the Chilean miners trapped beneath the ground for more than 60 days, without the support of sun or moon, wind or rain, to mark their daily experience of that passage? Who knows how time is marked within the steady embryonic development of a new life making its way towards birth? Who can imagine the experience of civilizations gone by, remnants of the past locked in geological formations such as the carved pueblos of Colarado's native American Anasazi pueblo dwellers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Pueblo_Peoples? What could they tell us of Time?
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