River of Time
A Haiku
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. —Heraclitus
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come. —Leonardo da Vinci
Above: As rivers run, so time flies.
Time is a river.
Too often, we pollute it.
Mind its purity.
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With sincere gratitude,
Tom
Well, speaking of time, Tom (Tome?), is that a linear or a circular reality? The Big Bang suggests linearity, but the periodicity of the solar system suggests that what goes around comes around. To steal from Churchill, time might be "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." We float in Time, as if in a river, but cannot reach shore to escape the flow.