We have SpaceTime. We have light years.
We look back through star time to the beginnings of time.
Time stretching, compressing, folding.
And inside this vast panorama,
there is the momentary flowering of individual duration.
Our brief flutter with sensibility
before we return to the great transformational cycles,
of which we are a speaking part.
The weight of time,
measured in increments of physical expression,
enables us to perceive the great value of frailty,
and to savour the poignance of this brief opportunity of conscious existence.
In the light and dark of time,
the small story of an individual life achieves its unique expressive value,
and the quality of our relationships and endeavours,
their full creative potential.