
This Precious Time
As humans: We make time for what is important. We take time for what we need. We mark time. We spend time. And sometimes, time spends and marks us, too. Our lives are created in bursts of peaks and valleys, incandescent light and velvet darkness. When your life span is less than one hundred years, one decade can feel like an age… But what of the lives of tortoises? And what of the lives of fruit flies or bats? And what of the lives of the stars? Or this planet on which we rev