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A brief survey of what time means to the peoples. I see a globe with these things spiraling around it, spawning, becoming one another. Maybe a Dymaxion map, or an apple peeled:

time heals ↔ it does not
time is a noun ↔ time is adverbial, modifies
time for happening ↔ time for consensus to emerge
private time ↔ (semi-) public time
serial access time ↔ random access time
passing time ↔ point or event time
taking time ↔ people time
low context time ↔ high context/holistic time
masculine time ↔ feminine time
fast rhythm ↔ slow
spread out ↔ compacted
low meaning time ↔ high
low relationship/connection time ↔ high
low responsibility time ↔ high
low discretion time ↔ high
highly scheduled ↔ lower
numbered statistical Dollared ↔ particulars to decipher
standardized homogenized time ↔ environment specific
full productive time ↔ living, encouraging, loving
make the day count ↔ use the day rightly, artfully
people as machine cogs ↔ human spirit given play
time absolute ↔ time malleable, relative, bottomless, formless
individual ↔ close knit
closed score ↔ open score
words/maps real ↔ territory, beneath self real
actor, action, goal ↔ blending
success, failure, self ↔ empty, nameless
left brain ↔ gestalts
words ↔ actuality, silence, movement
ego ↔ eliminate ego
art as creation ↔ art as insight
minds changing ↔ hearts dependable
time binds to projects ↔ time binds to people ↔ time bends
time to act ↔ time to ponder
meeting of minds ↔ meeting of hearts
ends, discrete quanta ↔ blending, flexing, learning
arrow of time ↔ reversible
individual ↔ group
centralized ↔ decentralized
lines ↔ circular, spherical
running out ↔ regenerative
mechanical ↔ organic
beginning, middle, end ↔ beginning, muddle, beginning…
micro units (seconds, minutes) ↔ macro (days, seasons, eons)
time dragging (bad times) ↔ time flying (good times)
time as enemy ↔ as friend
time as memory ↔ as happening
time as jailer ↔ as freer
time as becoming ↔ as being
time as consciousness ↔ something larger
external time ↔ inner
single causation thread ↔ multiple
duality ↔ singleness, wholeness
fixed time ↔ possibility of expanding and contracting time
time flows around us ↔ concentration obliterates time
working out actions in writing ↔ all in head, complete
sequentially (Beethoven) ↔ all at once (Mozart)
discrete units ↔ unified entity
arithmetic time (to age 35) ↔ logarithmic time (after 60)
doing to ↔ transaction, conversation
high body temperature (fast clocks) ↔ low (time speeds)
pre-experienced, imaginal ↔ as it comes
ruts ↔ new
variety ↔ regularity
gross body cues ↔ subtle
unconscious breathing entrainment ↔ attended
ignorant of group rhythms ↔ entering
out of time and rhythm ↔ congruent
conscious source ↔ unverbalized source
facts ↔ message
audience ↔ participants
one way ↔ feedback
own beat ↔ entrained beats
missed coherence ↔ discovered
discrete ↔ continuous
time schedules ↔ time as rhythm
unrelated actions ↔ related people
one side of body ↔ all included
one set of ideas ↔ all included
one rhythm ↔ syncopated too
longer vowels ↔ shorter
plan ↔ right thoughts
isolate people ↔ bring together
get job done ↔ cultivate talents
cause and effect ↔ synchronicity
conscious ↔ collective unconscious
now ↔ history
formal ↔ informal
sender, receiver, message ↔ none and one
talking to, at ↔ conversing, standing in the face
analysis ↔ synthesis
time is about doing ↔ now ia bout being
perfectibility ↔ life as it is, fuller
exterminate/hate other ↔ know one another
future is unreal ↔ future and past with us now
time is out of awareness ↔ make explicit
opposites ↔ related
explicit ↔ situational
attend things ↔ attend spaces
as long as it happens ↔ exact moment it happens is significant
separate events ↔ bridges
light ↔ shimmering, pregnant darkness
time flows ↔ window in time
single steps ↔ process
one end achieved ↔ artfully done
lines ↔ curves
completion ↔ dissolution beyond completion
constant, continual ↔ pauses, intervals of variable lengths
nothing new under sun ↔ transformations, emergences
imposed from outside ↔ arising
homogeneous time and team ↔ diversity
attains stated known outcome ↔ new is added, subtracted
progress ↔ relationships stable
time is real ↔ time is fabrications of minds
time is outside ↔ nervous systems drive one another
success is plan achieved ↔ achievement of plan is failure
time can be managed ↔ I manage myself relative to my time

:- Doug.