"In Maeterlinck's book called The Fourth Dimension (Time), he used a curve to illustrate a theory of time.  Standing in the Present, on the highest point of the curve, you can look back and see the Past, or forward and see the Future, all in the same instant.  Or, if you stand off to one side of this curve....your eye wanders from one to the other without any distinction.
In dreams, the mind wanders in and out of the Present, through the Past and Future, unable to distinguish between what has not yet happened.....This was supposed to prove that Time is just a dimension of Space, and that there is no difference between the two, except, that our consciousness roves along this Curve of Time."*
     It seems fitting that my mind roves between these dimensions, remembering the Past score and a half years of boating with Tim, the Present with him on our sailing vessel Allusion, and the hoped for score and a half years more of sailing off on Future adventures.  Wylie Blanchet wrote in Curve of Time, memories of many years on her 25 foot boat with her 5 children. The "Caprice" took them up the coast of British Columbia every summer and time expressed itself in the sea, the land and the moments with her family in the endless coves of the coast. I recollect that story now since in much the same way, this journey really is just a moment to moment "this-ness" along the curve of time.  I am humbled and joyful as I anticipate the next 3 1/2 months.  Already my dreams are vivid, a scramble of time, and I wonder if this will be my Maeterlinck summer.

 

*The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet