Does it feel like July 1 to you?

Time is a strange thing. Or is it a thing at all? Smarter people than me have written tomes on the concept of time, and ramble on and on about what it is. But when it comes to time, what it is and if it is seem theoretical. Doesn’t it?

I do have an opinion about time, which I will get to, but first a couple better writers and thinkers than me.

“ … People have no idea what time is. They think it’s a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.”

That’s from a character in “The........

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