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Friday, December 22nd, 2017 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maiaFacebook reminded me that I updated my cover photo three years ago today. Three years seems like such a long time ago. So much we didn't know, so much we would have preferred to never know, so much we've come to know only in the loss.
Nothing* lasts forever. That human-sized penguins once existed is no less amazing for their being extinct. All the glorious diversity of life on our present earth will be no less amazing when it's gone.
*So does NOTHING last forever? Historically, if there was nothing before the Big Bang, then nothing did NOT last forever (but what is “forever” if there's no time?). The rule seems to be that nothing lasts forever...including nothing...
Is the seeming binary rhythm of the universe a projection of our binary, rhythmic bodies? One – zero; word – silence; movement – stillness; beat – rest; something – nothing.
No pattern lasts forever – not species, not organisms, not civilizations, not songs. We make forms for each other, we make spaces for each other. We create for each other, not for eternity.
Nothing* lasts forever. That human-sized penguins once existed is no less amazing for their being extinct. All the glorious diversity of life on our present earth will be no less amazing when it's gone.
*So does NOTHING last forever? Historically, if there was nothing before the Big Bang, then nothing did NOT last forever (but what is “forever” if there's no time?). The rule seems to be that nothing lasts forever...including nothing...
Is the seeming binary rhythm of the universe a projection of our binary, rhythmic bodies? One – zero; word – silence; movement – stillness; beat – rest; something – nothing.
No pattern lasts forever – not species, not organisms, not civilizations, not songs. We make forms for each other, we make spaces for each other. We create for each other, not for eternity.
