One of the sad facts of lived experience is the primacy of perspective. The present moment is nearly ungraspable, and so, as the poet Gillian Conoley told me in an interview a few years ago, we find ourselves “hinging the present to the future” in order to experience it. The point, I guess, is that the context in which we place the present moment matters. It matters, too, that the forces giving shape to that context might be largely beyond our control.
21–22 NBA Previews: The Detroit Pistons (#28)
21–22 NBA Previews: The Detroit Pistons (#28)
21–22 NBA Previews: The Detroit Pistons (#28)
One of the sad facts of lived experience is the primacy of perspective. The present moment is nearly ungraspable, and so, as the poet Gillian Conoley told me in an interview a few years ago, we find ourselves “hinging the present to the future” in order to experience it. The point, I guess, is that the context in which we place the present moment matters. It matters, too, that the forces giving shape to that context might be largely beyond our control.