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A Rainbow Lovers Life
Have you ever heard of a “rainbow sheep?” It’s like a black sheep, only more colorful. I’m pretty sure that’s how my family sees me. I’m non-traditional. Let me paint the picture for you. In my family, kids are expected to grow up and become parents or priests or nuns. And people whisper about those…
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Family Treasure
The difference between wealth and treasure is that you can’t take wealth with you when your days are up, but treasure lasts forever. Wealth over time might grow or shrink depending on who is managing it. Treasures over time are kept safe because they are worth remembering and preserving. Wealth is gained by knowing that money does…
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Where are We in Time, and Why?
In the future, some say we can upload our brains and clone our cells. So, presumably, it won’t be long until immortality in a single body will be more feasible than ever before in history. I wonder if an immortal is made of space and time, cells and molecules, breath and heart beats? When these…
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Not to be forgotten, Son of a Crystal
Perhaps dreams allow us to time travel and visit the worlds of our ancestors. Last night my father called me on the phone and told me to come because he was having some trouble with my Grandmother, his Mother, Francis Isabell MacCrystal. Does her name ring a bell? (haha) With a name like that, I am guessing she did…
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Watch Time
The fortune cookie says “If you are wise, you will get to live ALL of your 100 years.” A lifetime on earth, in a body, or as a star is always defined and measured by time. Everything in time has a birth and a death. But is time herself an immortal? Mystics of the past became…
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Life is Short and Then We Die
The immortal deity of note for this chapter is Pluto, the roman god of the underworld, the afterlife, and also wealth. For 76 Earth years, this immortal god enjoyed the status of a planet. Discovered and named in 1930, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) struck Pluto from the list on Aug. 24, 2006. In a strange twist of irony, the god…
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Two Sides
Janus is called the god of boundaries. He has two faces, looking away from each other toward the past and the future. He presides over beginnings, transitions, conflicts, coins, births, the new year, and times of War and Peace. He is a perfect entity to invoke in the beginning of this story of our ancestors. I…
TimeIsArt
Sun's Poetic Reflections on Time, Dreams & Memories
TimeIsArt 