2016

As contemporary Westerners, we typically see time as a linear construct. It follows the track from past to present to future. We push back to the beginning of time's line, the Big Bang, and speculate ahead to the future, whose seeds we have already sowed.

Indigenous cultures see time as a cycle and mark it with seasonal reckonings, eternally present ancestors and rituals of renewal and regeneration.

In fact, we actually live a combination of both of these concepts of time. We name it in linear increments and celebrate it with cyclic regularity. For example, imagine yourself as a dot on the rim of the wheel of time's train. As you travel inexorably forward you repeat loop after loop after loop.

This path of time is filled with ups and downs in a geometry of rhythmic beauty.

Best wishes for a 2016 in which these ups and downs are lived with beauty, ever arching forward.
And be sure to enjoy the ride.