Welcome to Emergence Magazine Summer of Practice, a special series of guided audio practices.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this podcast, an executive editor of Emergence magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people in present-day Marin County.

In the stories of the ancient Greeks, Kronos, old and powerful, oversaw the order and progression of time.

And so the word Kronos came to represent quantitative time,

linear, predictable, and abstracted from the world.

On the other hand, Kyros, the youthful wing-footed God of opportunity,

expressed the quality of and possibility within a given moment.

Chiros is timing at the moment itself dictates,

an opening in time in the wake of interruption and change.

This episode is another in our series of audio practices that have been adapted for audio from a most recent print collection of writing prompts and exercises, a practice in time,

enabling you to pop in a pair of headphones and participate whenever and wherever you like.

Today's invitation is called Kairos' time and explores how our sense of time determines how we participate in the world,

and how we can learn to balance our reliance on structured time,

with an openness to the opportunities presented by the unpredictable and the spontaneous.

The audio for this practice runs for about 15 minutes, including my guidance through each step,

and timed silence for you to engage with them.

I encourage you to take longer to sing Kintu and to explore each prompt, and so feel free

to pause the audio at any point if you feel

like you'd like a little more time with it.

This practice offers you an opportunity to connect with the landscape and living beings around

you.

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