Born of Wonder

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Born of Wonder
Born of Wonder
But what if we're not made for Time?

But what if we're not made for Time?

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Katie Marquette
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“How strange that we cannot love time.

It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours?”

— Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy

Me and my out-of-time horse, helping me get Stil…

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