“Her antidote to boredom or the terror of lost time is to do things that alter time.” The Art of Pilgrimage, page 103, about Hannah Hinchman.
I was very curious about this quote when I came across it in The Art of Pilgrimage. So I am playing with it today. What does it mean to alter time, and why would we want to do it?
Meditation alters time, because I really cannot accurately sense the passage of time when I am meditating. I am lost in an oasis of contentment and harmony.
The thing that most alters time for me is drawing. It’s my intention to do some drawing each day on my pilgrimage, because I enjoy doing it, and it connects me to a sense of the Camino.I realize now that it also alters time.
I draw what I love. When I see something that captures my attention and imagination, I want to draw it. For me, drawing is not art, but it is making marks of what I see. And to do that, I really need to look at it. And when I really look at it, I lose all sense of time.
To me, drawing is a complete immersion in aliveness, and, in that immersion, time becomes irrelevant for just a few minutes.
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