Plywood Quality Thoughts about Time

By Dan Hedges

Expressions of time are misleading, trivialize life,

and dumb us down.  For example,

‘one day’

is a common phrase that diminishes the perceived

magnitude of what actually happens

or could happen, mentally, in

‘one day’.

Note that a single glimpse at a ‘commonplace’ object

could lead to millions of instantaneous abstractions of the mind.

Then consider the multitude glimpses that occur

in

‘one day’

and hold that in consideration next

to all of the varied psychological activity that occurs in

‘one day’

In

‘one day’

the brain goes through a puzzling matrix so

profound, that to say

‘one day’

is an absurd reduction of human experience.

Let’s be honest.  The use of digits to express the passing

of time is ridiculous and misleading.   Next time you find

yourself awake

‘one day’

behold the endless depth of a single gaze, of

the\ ‘ordinary thing’, and let not your experience of

‘one day’

be reduced to an

ordinary, reductive,

oppressive,

numeration of experience.

Dan Hedges teaches English in the Sir Wilfred Laurier School Board of Quebec.  He has also taught at Sedbergh School, and the Celtic International School.  He studied English, History, and Education and Trent University and Queen’s University.  His writing appears or is forthcoming in The Monarch Review, Inertia, Coatlism Press, Whole Beast Rag, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, Kenning Journal, Wilderness House Literary Journal, Retort Magazine, Haggard and Halloo Publications, Blink Ink, Greensilk Journal, Literary Chaos, The Euonia Review, Undertow Magazine, The Legendary, Record Magazine, The Apeiron Review, The Journal, Mad Swirl, and several others.