Where: at Sabine's backyard (and via Zoom or Facetime for those far away)
When: Sunday, October 3rd 4-6pm
Bring: a blanket or layers if it is chilly, an extra outside chair if you have it handy, food/drinks to share as you'd like
“It is Time” (02020)¹ by Alicia Eggert in collaboration with David Moinina Sengeh. The neon sign was commissioned by TED and Fine Acts for TED Countdown, and driven around Dallas, Texas on October 10th, 02020 to generate action around climate change. Photo by Vision & Verve.
Hello all!
It is nearly time for us to meet again for banter! And very likely in person can happen (which it hasn’t since June of 2020 for that one glorious in-person session on Chris’ porch). Those of us in the Flathead would very much continue to welcome those of us outside of the Flathead via Zoom or Facetime, etc. (we can set you up via our iPhones in your own chair?).
If I may be a tiny bit bossy and choose the topic this first round, I think you’ll all be drawn in by this idea I have for a September topic: The Case for Interacting with Time Non-Linearly. Then, as usual, we can drum up new ideas collectively for October’s banter when we are together at the end of this session & vote.
And also, who can say "Non-linearly“ with the least fumble? We must surely have a round to test that out. ☺️
Now, we’ve taken on Time before. Back in September of 2016, we met at my house and discussed Perception(s) of Time: http://rippingdiscourse2.blogspot.com/2016/09/banter-24-perceptions-of-time.html Even our last banter, #64, flirted with time since we were wondering whether or not leisure time was required to produce art. We’ve spoken about mortality, which of course relates to one’s own time or a loved one’s time. Yet, we haven’t talked about Time quite like this yet. This isn’t meant to be the physics of time, or a new age awakening about time, but is rather meant to help us explore how we do and don’t interact right now with time, creating some further, clearer awareness of how we do, and looking for spots where those interactions are already non-linear, as well as looking to others who value and are sharing non-linear concepts of time and how that might impact us and our daily rhythms, perhaps in nice or interesting ways.
How long is now?
Now, Nowadays, The Long Now.
Atomic time. Gregorian calendar. River time. Columbia River Time. North Fork River Time. Whitefish River Time. Midvale Creek Time. Home rivers. Away team rivers. (see Article 1 to make sense of this list)
As ever, take the topic and run with it & if you find some video or podcast or song or poem or piece of art or have a few paragraphs of thoughts that are going to help us get into the nuanced layers of this one, please send them my way. I will add everyone’s extra thoughts & contributions to the blog a week before we meet up, so we can review ahead of time.
In the meantime, check out these various links here - two articles, some art images from one of the articles, and a short documentary from the other of the articles. This should get us going on the case for interacting with time differently than we tend to, or than we tend to say or think we do. Is there a chance that without knowing it more of us than not often break away from clocks and calendars and super-imposed schedules and find all sorts of variations already in our own ways with time and timing?
Video from above article: https://vimeo.com/460255371
Living in the past.
Living in the future. Future-thinking. Living in the present.
Linear. Circular. Seasonal. Migrational. Swing of the pendulum.
No time. Too much time on one’s hands. Time for what matters. Time for art. Time for family. 9 to 5. Metronomes & beats & measures. Good timing. Wasn’t the right time. No time like the present.
Can’t wait to see you all.
Thank you for your time,
Sabine
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Additional materials for prepping:
1. From Isaac: When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time, https://www.pbs.org/video/when-whales-walked-journeys-in-deep-time-sn9pvf/ (you'll need to log into PBS to view, I believe)
I don't know what it would mean to say this is nonlinear, but it was spinning round and round in my head for days after my father died
Find 20 minutes when you can just sit and listen. This one is a story, without notes, told live.
And one more short song. Possibly my favorite song that appears to have no decent studio recording of it in existence
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