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Overnights in Octobers here in Toronto mean it usually cold enough that I hesitate to go out and pull a "Banksy" and create a painted Labyrinth somewhere that I need not to be seen doing so during daylight hours.

I currently have a full dozen Labyrinth works that are in various stages of progress.

With each passing October night, there is a dwindling window of outdoor evening paintable [sic] hours before Winter arrives in earnest and I will have to await Spring to continue working on my dozen or so outstanding Labyrinths.

By typing this, I have procrastinated, delayed, a full eight minutes, into deciding whether to pull an all-nighter and complete at least something tonight/overnight/pre-dawn.

It is moments like this I say to myself in the third person,

"Labyrinths don't build themselves."

And also reminding myself of that Bosnian Muslim Proverb,

"Every Chance is your Last Chance, The Circle is not round."

Funny to me, as many of my Labyrinths are indeed round-ish in design.

It's 11° Celsius outside, in Toronto tonight.

.... strange how simply typing this out has made me at least 'feel' like I did something labyrinth-making related tonight.

"When we talk about time, we usually refer to the past as being behind us and the future being ahead of us.

"This space-time arrangement seems so totally natural to us, it’s hard to imagine what it would be like to think otherwise.

"Years ago, I read about the Aymara, a tribe of Indigenous people in South America who have a way of thinking about time that’s the complete reverse of our own.

"They refer to the future as “back” or “behind” time, and the past as “front” time.

"When they speak about the past, they gesture ahead of them, and when they speak about the future, they gesture behind them.

"The reason they point ahead when talking about the past is that the past is known—it has already happened, therefore, it’s in front of you, where you can see it.

"The future, on the other hand, is unknown—it hasn’t happened yet, so it’s behind you, where you can’t see it.

"I read about this almost fifteen years ago and it still blows my mind.

"The past is in front of us. The future is behind us."

-- Quote from page 150 of "Don't Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again", Book by Austin Kleon

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"(...) In my opinion the web is better when it is safer, faster and more open to anyone to enjoy its content.

However, the web is getting worse because it is getting more and more unsafe (from a privacy perspective) with real consequences (even imprisonment). The web is getting worse because it is just as fast as it was 10 years ago, while internet speeds have increased dramatically. This is detrimental for poor countries and poor people and increases inequality. The web is getting worse because it is less open every day. It is becoming more and more a set of content silos that allow censorship and bubbles to form, blocking of ‘other’ views, thus making the web less open and empowering extremism. (...)"

Excerpt from:
"A message for Paul Kinlan" https://www.usecue.com/blog/a-message-for-paul-kinlan/

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