Expressing joy and defiance through art: Writings and photos on hope and resilience; love and relationships; life and death; anger and acceptance; and human behavior and beliefs.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds
"Humans consider themselves unique, so they’ve rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness. 'One' is their unit of measure — but it's not. All social systems we’ve put into place are a mere sketch; 'one plus one equals two,' that’s all we’ve learned. But one plus one has never equaled two — there are, in fact, no numbers and no letters. We’ve codified our existence to bring it down to human size, to make it comprehensible; we’ve created a scale so we can forget its unfathomable scale… Time is the only true unit of measure. It gives proof to the existence of matter; without time, we do not exist."
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