The arrow of time

By Diego Goldberg, via Sam Sethi:

On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop, for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by.

The intriguing photo sequence, stretching back 30 years, is here.

Love and loss

Found inscribed on a flagstone within a memorial in Grovesnor Square Gardens for the victims of 9/11:

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not."*

And on the awning above:

"Grief is the price we pay for love"

How poignant the mutual contradictions of love and loss, time and timelessness. Grappling with such paradoxes is part of what it is to be human, I suppose.

*Henry Van Dyke

The timetelling brain

Some aspects of our human experience seem so obvious and "natural" to us that we don't stop to question how they arise. For instance, I certainly have never given any thought as to how my brain detects the passage of time before!