It's Always Now

No Time like the Present

kinds of time:
past, present, future; day, night; seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, ages, epochs, eons, moments, attoseconds, femtoseconds, planck time, spacetime, military time, liturgical time (e.g ordinary, lent, advent, etc.), real time, daylight savings time, geologic time, 4-4 time, dreamtime, a song by pink floyd, father time, part/full-time, good times, new york times, linear, cyclical, all-time, forever, always, eternity, infinity, imaginary time, unreal time, party time, time to get ill

alpha and omega, beginning and end, sex and death (sad), jesus
who can say where the road goes, only time -enya
time, ti me, that is me.  tim-may! -south park

"outside" of time
solar year, tropical year, sidereal year, nasa time
time zones, GMT (greenwich mean time), UTC (universal coordinated time)
gregorian, Julian calendars; international date line, time travel
international atomic time, terrestrial time, barycentric dynamical time
subjective time, heartbeats, lifetime
ephemeris

no one lives forever
impermanence, ephemerality
here today, gone tomorrow
oblivion (death is a personal "end of time")
life goes on, this too shall pass
time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future -s miller band
time doesn't go.  time stays.  we go.  -Linda Ellerbee
all these moments, lost, like tears in rain
eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
ardently do what must be done.  who knows? tomorrow, death comes -Buddha

does spacetime have an actual beginning or end?
s hawking said there was no "before" the big bang
     but I suspect both time and space are infinites
     at least, i conceive of them that way
big bang beginning, and an actual end of time?
big crunch, big freeze -heat death of universe...
evolution has love in it
   peace, love, and happiness
live long and prosper
    health, wealth
in that sleep of death, what dreams may come -shakespeare
immortality is a delusion
we are 'ephemerals'

hour, ow
week, weak
minute, my-knute/newt, small, infinitesimal, micro
days, daze; night, knights; morning, mourning
evening- even numbers, getting even
noon and no one and none and nun
seconds, and thirds (meals! portions!); thyme :-)
      Minute Maid oj
month, am onto H; moth, mother, monty hall, monotheism
year, why? ear (a sound reason) (riesen chocolates!)
    yea, ar (alright)(all right)(annette riddle)

science: a trip around the sun, and vibrations of cesium (!!)

leap seconds are a thing, no joke
the second is an SI base unit
I remember being the only person being excited (in 1989) of
    the time being 1:23p 45s on 6/7/89.
    I thought it was cool. I called popcorn. (remember that? lol)
a nasa year (sidereal year) is 365d, 6h, 9m, 9s
the earth wobbles, which affects equinox to equinox measurement
tidal friction slows the earth's rotation (!)
"our spacetime is a Minkowski space"
Jupiter's gravity affects our (elliptical) orbit

the universe may eventually go black, just like us
lifetime, senescence, heartbeats, aging is cellular replication errors
death, thou shalt die!  - John Donne
death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it -Murakami
we are blips, and that's a fact, jack
Rest In Peace; rest in pieces

blippy and elf:
Augie thinks Blippy is me
'everyone lives forever' (bumper sticker)
god is love, love believes all things;
faith is assurance of things hoped for, belief in things unseen
    -Hebrews 11:1

I don't believe it, but might like to be pleasantly surprised,
and wake up in heaven, or in god's mind, or inside a computer,
or in another universe, or on another planet, or whatever the fuck it is

gratitude (gr attitude): the present is a gift
oblivion: ob, I liv on (obstetrics: live on, through children)
immortality: immorality with a t (cross?), crypto-xianity
god - getting over death; go on, die;
         good old days; gratitude of deliverance
         gladness of deity, deicide, or devil
         getting old, despairing; get one's deserve
         gratification of desire; guerdon of devotion
         glad, overjoyed, delighted