A friend of mine from England wrote me yesterday about the latest cosmic scuttlebutt. She called it “The Quickening” (a phenomenon where older folks feel like time is speeding up), but said that it was now happening at a global level even in young lives. This is thought to be due to the slowing of the earth’s spin and the massive advances in technology.
a time in the earth’s history where not only are both human and geological events are speeding up, but the rate at which they are speeding up is speeding up. It’s fractal time.
Earths poles have shifted and we are heading back to the true galactic center. So gravity is decreasing and time is speeding up and the whole whirlwind is supposed to culminate on December 21, 2012. Apparently it has something to do with passing near the central black hole in the galaxy and the Mayan Calendar and precessional movement and I’m not sure what else.
This is particulary interesting to me because time has been very odd indeed since the beavers approached Martinez. Allow me to explain. I can remember this languid, halcyon summer of filming and photographing our 2007 kits, where it seemed like weeks stretched on forever. Then a gunshot of sudden panic in late October when we found out the beavers would be killed, and then a literal blur of activity from November 07 until, well um, now.
There are specific epochs of time I remember among the din. The subcommittee epoch, which seemed to drag on forever. The first flooding and massive dam lowering and death of our kit epoch. The April meeting epoch and the earthday followup. Then many farmer’s markets and a festival and art in the park. Most recently the bridge-sitting epoch which seemed like 1 day and a million days all at once. If the calendars were suddenly taken from my life, it is possible I would have no idea whatsoever what month it was. Surely that’s got to be the effect of “The Quickening”?
(Or maybe its just been because I’ve been as busy as…well, you know.)
No danger of calendars disappearing though. I just got the 2009 watershed calendar in the mail! Designed by artist John Fingers, it is a lovely collection of images throughout the bay area, and features our favorite subject with the tail up photo I took the day the city reported they would be exterminated. Track down yours today.
Meanwhile, ask your friends. Is the effect of The Quickening visible in their lives this past year? I’d be interested in what they say.
