Not perfectly straightforward and also a bit of a slog in parts, but one doesn't have to understand all of the references on any deep level in order to get the overall point at the end.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/07/22/other-stories/?utm_source...
The title and subhead alone make a good teaser
We are tied to the natural world in ways which we are unaware. Time is an odd concept constantly in flux....sunrise to sunset. As it passes the wheel of the year rolls ever faster...wearing ever smaller and gathering speed as it goes downhill. Perhaps it is our pagan past, but somehow this seems a time of year for reflection...like the god Janus looking forward and backward in time. For now the darkness passes and the light will grow. It is a time to celebrate across religions, cultures, and countries.
Lately I've come to understand what they mean by time has no meaning and there are infinitely many derivative lives co-existing. The way things are and have always been is the way you feel about it at this very moment.
It's Day 51 of the Year 2019 CE, meaning that it's February 20, 2019
It's Day 346 of the Year 2018 CE
So, December 12, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.
What one understands and how one understands is dependent upon perspective – personal, cultural, educational, experiential or what have you. There is a range of variability in how we see things, from people to people and from person to person.
