Jumping into the stream of time

I’ve noticed that this on-line TSK course–already in week 3–is one of the driving forces that makes me aware of linear time.  It sets a pace that invites me to keep up, and reflects back that I am running behind.  Most of the other activities and responsibilities of my life are so cyclic–each day, week or month–that I merely have to remember them in order to do them.  So is this course a new agent of linear time (“I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date”) or an invitation to dive into something new in a way that can broaden and deepen the stream of time?  I think diving in is the key.  I feel a pressure to write something now,  before I feel so far removed from the gathering discussion that it becomes increasingly difficult to say anything relevant to what others have already said.  Perhaps everything that arises in time is like that: linear on the surface but also providing an invitation to dive beneath the surface.  In the present case it feels like this is my chance to connect with the living energy of others (including with Jack who worked on the books we are now studying), and to say yes to the energy being given by time.  In my case, the alternative is to do the readings, dabble in the exercises, and look at the posts of others.  Like standing on the edge of the pool watching the other kids laughing and splashing.  Franz Kafka put it this way: “There is a point when the current catches you away–that is the point that must be reached”.  So here goes.