from Latin, Memor

Infinite; the measured and the measureless.
Is time infinite, does it exist?

Time measures the movement of matter through space. Whether we are counting it or not, matter moves through space and matter changes. Galaxies collide stars die planets form atmospheres. Time measures change. But what if there is no one there to see the change? To remember: "That was when Orion was born, when Mars died, when Jupiter got a moon. When Earth birthed her oceans." Time exists only where there is a witness. Time exists because we remember.

The swallows are building their nests behind the wire mesh now. It was designed to keep them away, out of human traffic. The swallows don't know this. They only know that somewhere in them, so deep it is imperceptible, is the understanding that this is where they are supposed to build their homes. It is so true to them it is fact unnoticed. They cannot speak it, even if they could speak. They cannot think it. They remember.

My copy of the Nag Hammadi library arrived today.

From Three Forms of First Thought:

"For I shall tell you a mystery of this age and tell you about the forces in it. Birth beckons birth, hour gives birth to hour, day gives birth to day. Months inform the month, time goes around following time. This age was completed in this fashion, and it turned out to be short, as a finger releases a finger and a joint separates from a joint."  

This morning when I woke up, there were people around, I could hear them. Moving and speaking, voices. Telephones. Footsteps. I worked late and slept late. It takes so much energy to surrender.
That's the humor of it. And this is my vocabulary today:

Memory:

The length of time over which the recollection of a person extends.

So as to keep alive. 

Record:

To take to heart. 

To remind.

To bare witness. 

Remember:

To bear in mind. 

To think of or recall with some kind of feeling, intention. 

Recollect:

To collect or gather.

To bring back again. 

Light is the means by which matter becomes conceivable, and can be remembered. Collected. Again and again. 

Speaking of time: I can't believe the coffee shop closes at 5. What kind of people can live in a world where there's no coffee shop after 5pm?

Not I, said the cat. Not I.