This wasn’t technically written on November 26th but I’m reposting it from November in 2019 as part of Fandango’s Friday Flashback.
In The Power of Imagination, I compared Eichmann to a cog in a clock, unaware of the bigger picture. This morning, when I re-read it, I thought about how it is not the clock that makes time pass. A clock is just a measuring device, like a tape measure or an odometer. All these human concepts. The birds have no clocks and yet they know when to do what. The nest-building, the partner-finding, the egg-hatching, the migrating. It all happens. All around them are clocks, I guess. Leaves falling, buds growing, sun-rises, rain falls, tides, moon phases.
Humans have our clocks and yet we seem to know so little. We know when we need to be at school or at work or how long it is since we ate. But we don’t know when or how to find the right partner, we don’t know how to prioritise raising kids…
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Out of the Cave 
Clocks is just another way for us humans trying to beat nature (and each other). Mother Earth has her own rhythm and nature just play along.
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although clocks are useful, they can be ‘bossy’ —
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The words you have used to write this fine article are also human constructs, but we need them to help try and make sense of this beautiful world in which we are privileged to live. 🙂
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I was just saying that human constructs are great while there are humans to value them. But there is little value in my words or any other human construct if we destroy ourselves by destroying our home planet.
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Absolutely, 100% with you. I could weep sometimes when I see how we treat our beautiful planet.
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