Natural Time (No Additives!)
The day guides, well, everything. Eating, sleeping, working and playing all take place within the framework of the 24-hour diurnal rhythm. Curiously, when experimenters have undergone extended isolation in caves, their bodies have usually adopted a cycle of about 25 hours.
These natural time periods are gifts from the cosmos. Most of the other time intervals we commonly use, such as seconds, minutes, hours, weeks and calendar months, are arbitrary human inventions in our fruitless quest to tame time.
Barry Evans (barryevans9@yahoo.com) is convinced that time slows with age. The collection of his first 80 Field Notes columns is on sale at Eureka Books.
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Winter Classic Table Tennis Tournament
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outdoors / 9 a.m. Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1020 Ranch Road, Loleta. Meet at Refuge Visitor Center off Hookton Road. Leisurely, two- to three-hour trip intended for people wanting to learn birds of Humboldt Bay area. 822-3613.
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music / 3 p.m. Cafe Veritas/Mosgo's, 180 Westwood Center, Arcata. Informal monthly gathering of musicians playing Irish and other Celtic music. Hosted by Seabury Gould. seaburygould.com. 845-8167.
Nonviolence Action Camp
etc. / 10 a.m. Chinmaya Mission near Piercy. Weekend-long direct action orientation features workshops, role playing, seminars, ceremonies and field trips. Bring food, bedding, warm clothes, signs, banners, bikes, drums, acoustic instruments. Pre-register. saverichardsongrove.org. 932-5898.
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