"'Do you know what time is?' His voice is so soft, I think I'm making it up. 'Time is our way of keeping everything from happening at once.'
I reply as he taught me, long ago, the year my voice broke. 'You know what time is? Time is just one damn thing after another."
Richard Powers
The Time of Our Singing
On Having Turned 80
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It seemed odd, even to me, that after posts (or, let's face it, essays) on
major and not so major birthdays for the past 20 years, I let turning 80 go ...
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