Fascinating. I enjoyed the challenge of envisioning my geographical point of reference to the North in order to feel that volvelle, not just look at it. Reading this post I think changed my experience of clock-time; twenty-four hours of the same duration, all year, now feels abstract. As if it is disciplining, even subverting that "messy" and "unsystematized" knowledge that emerges from embodied/relational/communal experience of the world. As we head into summer at my latitude, I am going to be paying attention to whether the hours feel as if they are lengthening ....
Fascinating. I enjoyed the challenge of envisioning my geographical point of reference to the North in order to feel that volvelle, not just look at it. Reading this post I think changed my experience of clock-time; twenty-four hours of the same duration, all year, now feels abstract. As if it is disciplining, even subverting that "messy" and "unsystematized" knowledge that emerges from embodied/relational/communal experience of the world. As we head into summer at my latitude, I am going to be paying attention to whether the hours feel as if they are lengthening ....
Hurrah for an intuitive and experiential relationship to time :)