How To Live in Deep Time
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How to Live in Deep Time:
On the universe and self
(Article in Orion Magazine)
by Ellen Wayland-Smith
IN MY BACKYARD, I have a makeshift pond: a galvanized steel tub, about two feet in diameter, outfitted with an electric filter, heating coil, algae-skimmed driftwood, and a paving stone propped up on two overturned clay flowerpots. It is a summer day, and from where I sit, reading in the shade, I hear the filter bubble softly as the sun crests the roof of the house. Soon, I hear a flippery noise—a muffled knock and splash of water against the tub’s sides. I put down my book.
Sweeney, our three-year-old red-eared slider turtle, hoists himself—neck straining, claws scraping—up out of the water and onto the sun-soaked paving stone for his afternoon bask.
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- Posted By: Gagandeep Singh
- Date Added: January 2, 2025
Hi,Gagan. I much enjoyed reading these excerpts from Ellen Wayland-Smith, much in keeping with an evolutionary perspective on how life originates, forms, and maintains itself, innermost and outermost. Thank you for them in this blog entry, and for presenting the “Theseus paradox” metaphor, which is new to me, but fitting in light of creating a new universe story. I have more of an inside-out view of the created order, which posits that the “what-it-is” of a corporeal thing, or object (non-organic), like a ship, car, or house is not found in its formal cause, nor in the assembly of its… Read more »