{"id":7674,"date":"2016-05-21T11:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2016-05-24T07:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:49:06","slug":"skipping-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7674","title":{"rendered":"Time-skimming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been investigating how the mind actively constructs in each moment, and noticing that no construct is ever completely finished. When we are aware of the activity of minding that builds each structure, our perceptions do not have to take on the heaviness of their content\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7675\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skipping-stones-by-GIZ-Flickr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7675\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skipping-stones-by-GIZ-Flickr.png\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSkipping stones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by GIZ - Flickr http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/j3u43eq \" width=\"703\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skipping-stones-by-GIZ-Flickr.png 703w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skipping-stones-by-GIZ-Flickr-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSkipping stones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by GIZ &#8211; Flickr<br \/>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/j3u43eq<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Time is a curious appearance, showing up, turning up as it elaborates with space\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Cutting water, frog jumps, or stone-skimming\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a horizontal endeavor can open to a cosmology of slippery moments as time opens a bubbled instant to a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>finity<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of colliding concerns, both transpicuous yet vague\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6like memories stirred with current events\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Machhranga<\/strong><br \/>\n\tBy Ken McKeon<\/p>\n<p>First crooked in a pointer finger,<br \/>\nThen swept out and away<br \/>\nIn a sidearm toss,<\/p>\n<p>A small flat stone is freed<br \/>\nTo spin and freely slap<br \/>\nDown on smooth water,<\/p>\n<p>It hits not quite flat<br \/>\nThen skips-<\/p>\n<p>Laura turns from the mirror of her life,<br \/>\nShe sees friends tossing in their sleep,<br \/>\nShe breathes ease<br \/>\nInto the burning stars,<br \/>\nThey light the darkness of a billion miles,<br \/>\nWe see them everywhere,<br \/>\nAll directions,<br \/>\nAnd my heart returns from far away off<br \/>\nTo a butterfly<br \/>\nOn my wrist, its wings are slowly<br \/>\nFlapping, and a moment arises<br \/>\nOn a planet I will never know-<\/p>\n<p>And the stone slips away<br \/>\nInto the unimaginable dark floods of time,<\/p>\n<p>And we tremble before dawn,<br \/>\nUntil our hearts stop beating,<br \/>\nAnd then they do again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been investigating how the mind actively constructs in each moment, and noticing that no construct is ever completely finished. When we are aware of the activity of minding that builds each structure, our perceptions do not have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,81,40,70,69],"tags":[115,40,104,70,69],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-awareness","category-poetry","category-space","category-time","tag-opening","tag-poetry","tag-presence","tag-space","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}