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Jun 16, 2009
"Events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation." --Eudora Welty
Dipped in Original Wisdom
"High in the Andes live the Aymarans. A tribe born with their toes dipped in original wisdom. They place the future at their backs and face their past with the intentness of a woman scanning a mirror for wrinkles or chin hair. An Aymaran gestures over his shoulder to indicate next year and will point straight ahead if you need directions to yesterday. ... I know in my old bones that sing their aching melodies through the night, that the Aymarans got it right. It is not the future but the past that looms that blooms in front of me unfailing as my neighbor's azaleas. We're walking home backwards, every step is a point of discovery and return. There is in this reversal of position and perspective, a certain comfort to be derived." What follows is a beautiful reflection.
BE THE CHANGE
This article explores the Aymaran concept of time, and looks at how different languages reflect, and shape, our conception of time. More ...
