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Dear Bun, some thoughts for you on picturing time

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Caroline DeVane
Jul 28, 2022
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Concentric rings of a tree’s trunk are overlaid on a telescope image of the night sky. The image is off-set with the center of the tree’s trunk in the lower left of the frame.
Image by Dave Unger

Dear A (a.k.a. Bun),

How do you think about time, or more specifically, a year? Do you conjure a particular visual image?

My mental map of a year looks something like a lopsided oval, with June (our birth month!) at the front of the oval near the viewer and Nov-Dec-Jan, dreaded era of darkness, occupying the back of the oval farther a…

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