Time's Arrow

You feel it most especially in the Fall when school begins and families reconfigure their lives and those of the children to move in conformity to time's arrow. It is as though temporality itself organizes our random efforts and activities into a form of coherence and sends us on a trajectory of change aimed at some unknown future.

Children get up early and go to school to learn and progress. Companies and institutions gear up to increase their activity and productivity. After the slow relax of summer, we are moving again, and history speeds up as human beings set off across time's landscape in pursuit of new challenges.

What will change? We will. We will grow, perhaps imperceptibly, but grow we will and mature in the growing. And time's arrow will move humankind further along, down its road toward a possible Omega point awaiting us--or so it seems.