Hello again, Christa here, with the third part of this small series that is centered around

words and ideas which have emerged across 20 years of conversation here on on being

with wise and graceful lives. These are for what I might think of as tethering understandings

for being alive and walking into the callings of this world now. Today, I'm going to talk about time.

I don't really think there's any more fascinating subject and there's surely been nothing more

intriguing in all the years of on being than coming close to people who think and work

and help the rest of us get inklings of the different scales and forms of the true nature of time.

There is geological time, deep time, cosmic time, evolutionary time. All of those are

interestingly akin to a religious prophetic imagination, the long arc of the moral universe

that Martin Luther King, Jr. invoked. The ancient Greeks have two very different words for time

and one is Kronos and that is time as we feel it in our bodies and in our lives and have tried to

organize our world around. That is the stuff of clocks and calendars time as we can measure and plan

and really want to rely on as kind of an arrow that's always moving forward. And then there is

chyrus time. This is an in breaking, a moment that disrupts everything that came before,

everything you thought you knew. It can be the telephone ringing and hearing something

that will change it all. Chyrus moments are these pivot points when the questions you're asking,

holding, living, utterly changed. Life is suddenly unalterably defined or really separated into a

before and an after. And of course, when we speak of a chyrus moment, it's a moment with a

capital M. It can be a minute, it can be a century. And I've come to feel increasingly that this

is a way to speak of this young century we inhabit this post 2020 world that we are in a chyrus

moment as a species. So this is all a very grand way to speak of reality. But the beautiful and

mysterious thing I've experienced in all of this way of thinking and imagining this way of cracking

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