Time

Long days approaching the Summer Solstice create the illusion of expanded time. But time is not expandable for the human body which has a calculable amount of heartbeats in its most ideal future. The most charmed life with no illness will eventually end when that last heartbeat is expended.

The expansion and contraction of periods of sunlight as the planet tilts this way and that on its journey around its sun are wonderful reminders of the reality of my life. I am a relatively small organism on that spinning and tilting sphere. The Universe is vast around me. My life, as important as it seems to me, is a microscopic moment in the grandeur of Space and Time. 

How precious my time becomes in light of this. How irrelevant most of my worries become as well. I need only be aware of all this in this moment to feel a part of the Universe. My troubles with material life shrink in importance. My mind opens to the greatness outside myself. I yearn to share my amazement with those who are also awakened. This is part of the practice and the community of humanism.