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STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 4

STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 4

This post is part of a series exploring how we humans interact with time.  So far we’ve figured out that our latest iteration of strategies for dealing with time, Clock Time, is starting to wear down a lot of us post-moderns into frazzles. The whole purpose of Clock Time is to enable us to get more and more things done.  The Achievement Junkies among us are having a field day. The rest of us are finding that if we are…

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STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 3

STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 3

Poet John O’Donohue once beautifully said, “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” After about 300 years or so of living on clock time, I think we humans have gotten a pretty good idea of where that mode of moving can take us.  It is not where O’Donohue would want to go. Clock time tends to turn off the wonder-noticing parts of our brain, it seems.  This is not a…

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STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — PART 1

STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — PART 1

I remember when “don’t push the river; it flows by itself” was a pop-wisdom phrase on everybody’s lips.  A hippie catch-phrase gone viral in the 1960s and 70s, it was likely to be used to browbeat somebody who was tense or anxious or downright scared and getting naggy behind it. Commonly, back then, the phrase usually kept company with words like “uptight” or “square” and prefaced shaming statements about being some kind of whiny stick in the mud. The river…

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YOU TOO CAN PLAY IN “EVENT TIME”

YOU TOO CAN PLAY IN “EVENT TIME”

Elon Musk is probably right.  Remote work (formerly known as “telecommuting” or “working from home”) is a challenge…for corporations and other organizational entities. It can cause massive headaches for managers and human resource people trying to round up and ride herd on all the “wild” spirits who want to do their own kind of different and were given an opportunity to try it when the world got hit by a massive pandemic that made the corporate culture standards of behavior…

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ON CLOCK-TIME: An Un-Seeing Exercise

ON CLOCK-TIME: An Un-Seeing Exercise

We humans may be the only animals on this planet that are aware of time.  In fact, humans are more than a little freaky about time. We have been fascinated and even obsessed with it for a good long while now. There’s archaeological evidence that the Babylonians and Egyptians began to measure time about 5,000 years ago.  That development in human thought-constructing was probably built on a long, long line of other previously thunk thoughts and concepts. Some people say…

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TIME AS A SHAPING TOOL (An Overview)

TIME AS A SHAPING TOOL (An Overview)

A really smart somebody or other once opined that time is what keeps everything in a story from happening all at once.  Since we humans are all engaged in making up some kind of story or other, this is an important concept. I know.  All kinds of people have weighed in with opinions – esoteric, scientific, and mundane – about Time.  You have probably heard them all before. Basically, under all of that pretzel-brain making cascade, we are told that…

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