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where my pen went today: time (2)
…
Time is not a thing.
The thing is the doing:
your life, the accretions of all those doings.
Time is the metric
the how much of your life was given over
to all those doings.
That is your legacy: what you did in your life.
…
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©ilinkcs

where my pen went today: time

…
if you can't find time for yourself,
then you appease your conscience by
using your time to hide yourself from yourself

If every moment of your life is spent elsewhere,
then where are you in your own life?
…

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text ©ilinkcs (2026)

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