RTBTCKI Time passes at different rates
Posted By Kathleen David on June 19, 2021
One of my favorite television shows, which will surprise no one who knows me, is Doctor Who.
In the episode “Blink”, which has put people off of Angel Statues, the Doctor tries to explain to Sally Sparrow that time is not a line but something else
“People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.”
I thought about this as Caroline attended her last day of school in the school. They have decided to do some remote learning for the next two weeks.
It seems to me like yesterday I was taking her to the bus stop for the first time.
(For the VI: This is Caroline age 5 and me walking to the school bus for her first day of Kindergarten. She is on the right wearing a blue dress, holding her green Tinkerbell lunch box, and wearing her green Tinkerbell backpack)
But 13 years have passed since that photo and next week Caroline matriculates from high school to College.
This is the last day of physically going to school.
(For the VI: Caroline under the tree in the front yard. She has her hair pulled back. She is wearing a white shirt with a black vest, a back leather skirt, and laced up black leather boots.)
Here’s the funny thing that people have noticed on Facebook. Look at my face from 13 years ago and her face now. Caroline and I agree that it’s kinda spooky how much we look alike but we are pleased that we do.
This year was Peter and my twentieth wedding anniversary. That is a good while to be married and I am hoping we make it to forty and beyond. It does seem just like it was yesterday I can recall a lot about that day from my mother being at the backdoor with a cup of coffee for Jeff who did my hair. I remember my father’s arm trembling when he walked me down the aisle. I remember the origins of the joke “must be the new bride smell”.
I can remember getting my letter from the Yale School of Drama saying I was accepted into the stage management program. Doesn’t seem that long ago but it was thirty years ago.
I will always remember the look of pure happiness on Caroline’s face as she showed me the email accepting her into the Animation, Interactive media, and Game design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology which is her dream school.
Two years ago. I lost one of my best friends in the world due to cancer. Angelo will always have a place in my heart. He was my brother from another mother. Angelo, Jeff, and I had a lot of history with each other. There were times we wouldn’t see each other for a while but we always picked-up like it was last week rather than six months ago. Those kinds of friendships are rare indeed.
But it also seems like the other day that he was slitting my throat for a test run of a special effect he was working on. Or building the costume and make up for Beauty and the Beast with me as Vincent. We are talking the Ron Perlman/Linda Hamilton version. We did a lot of things together and have lots of fun tales to tell about them.
I know that time is linear, but it is not linear in my head. Thoughts cascade onto other thoughts as I remember the past and hope for the future.
I am grateful for the time I have spent with loved ones.
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