Sections

Preface

1. Time: time-space, movement, passing, counting, general

2. Past: tradition, memories, habits, fixed, specific

3. Present: now, here-now, day, specific, definitive

4. Future: maybe, planned, anticipated, uncertain

5. Passing: change, cycles, aging, growth

6. Beginning: renewal, starting, enthusiasm

7. Ending: wrapping up, stopping, death

8. Middle: in progress, half-way

9. Language: poetry, philosophy, ordinary conversation

10. Silence: inexpressive, nonsense, illogical, open

11. Mystical: numinous, profound, intense, insightful,

12. Beauty: art, crafts, music, reading/writing

13. Goodness: ethics, morality, manners, social

14. Philosophy: ethics, history, analysis, arguments, logic

15. History: landmark events, books/printing, memory

16. Eternity: forever, infinite, unimaginable

1.  Time: time-space, movement, passing
     measurement, counting, physics, chemistry
     direction, generalities, days

1.
Generalities

Time is a fact.
Time is laid against reality as a measure.
Time <--> Motion: Time and Motion Intertwined.

1.1
Time-Place-Things-Beings

Substance is what subsists over time.
Time is both form and content.
The form of time is the possibility of the structure of place-time.
A picture of time needs a video.

We cannot think of any object outside the possibility of its
temporal existence inside our Time-World or its integration
and combination with all other other beings.

1.1.1
More Information Coming In

Give it some time, be patient:
More facts will arrive soon,
More information will come,
More reasons will be forthcoming---
We never have all the facts.

1.1.2
Meditating on Logical Space?

In my quasi-logical place of late
I did not hesitate
To stretch my feet out
And meditate on future
Facts in logical space. What?

1.2
Generalities II

Time contains the possibilities of all state-of-affairs.
The state-of-things emerge in time.

Roughly speaking, time is tasteless, colorless, silent, and real.

The logical structure of time, our pictures of time,
our inclinations about time all depict the World.

Creating a clear picture of time takes time.
Do pictures of time come easily to mind?

Can we think about objects outside of time?

Does only God know the truth of a statement about the future?

1.2.1
Multiply the Facts

Yes, facts multiply
But do they divide into facts?
Yes, the world has many facts
All stacked in rooms so called Now and Past.
In the future, we will add more facts.

1.3
Living in Our Time

Time recreates the logical space.
Any logical space is bordered by time.

Time has names: Past, Present, Future
Or: Fixed, Flexible, Planed

The World's-Time, my Time Zone, and
My internal sense of time are all
Part of my living in our time.

1.4
Pictures, Paintings, Film

Time is one cinema of reality.
Do I need logic or a stop-watch.
Do I need a picture or a video to show time?

1.5
Do Present Acts Cause the Future States?

We can estimate future events from present ones.
We assume a causal nexus,
Not a "superstition" without a reason.
We define future events by many present ones:
predictions, probabilities, guesses, estimates,
anticipations, expectations, schedules...
OK, not infer; but damn close anyway.

1.6
Entropy Points Its Finger

The Arrows of Time
never rest,
moving forward unrelenting
irreversible:
from hot towards cold

from stream to Sea
from organized to disorganized
from past to future
from moving towards stillness
from life towards death.

Or, so it seems, to us,
with our little particulars,
with our home brew views,
with our social habits a must.

1.6.1
Energy Moves Time
BU3186

The clock on the garage wall
Stopped working months ago;
Timelessly stuck on 12 to 4.
Needs a new battery:
Time requires Energy.

1.7.1
The Sun Shows Time

These yellow poppies reveal time,
These sweet razor clams taste time,
These brown seeds generate time.
The seashells speak of past time.
These gray leafless trees show time.

The Earth is Time; the Sky is Time.
And the five fingers of one black hand hold time,
And the blinking of two blue eyes cry time.
The dirty garden hoe and hoses water time,
The fishing line drops to the bottom of time,

The snows on Mt. Ranier glacier time,
Hood Canal ravens break open time,
The tulips in Skagit Valley sweeten time,
The roaring Queets River rapids erode time...

1.7.2
The Shifting Faces of Time
BU2984

Essence = Family Resemblance

clocks, schedules, processes,
day, sunrise, motion, change,
memories, feelings, aging,
growing, evolution, meetings,
breakfast-lunch-dinner,

sleep-wake-sleep.
repetition, cycles, repeating,
expecting, anticipating, waiting,
planning, costs, work, starting,
patience, eternal, ending, death...

school time, play time, fun time
Christmas time, Labor Day time

Footnotes, Bibliography, Links, Research

1.8.1
There is definitely something, rather than nothing.
BU2509

Is Mu Dark Matter?
Is Light Speed Time?
     Is Gravity a Ball of Strings?
Is a Mind a Body-Brain?
     Questioning, wondering, ideas rain.

1.8.2
Title
BU2982

Clocks measuring
fragments of infinity
quite bewilderedly
displaying pictures
of time's invisibility

Table of Contents: Index

Footnotes, Bibliography, Links, Notes, Remarks

2.  Past: memories, tradition, habits,
      fixed, artifacts

2.3
If You Have a Habit
BU2932

If you have a habit
You acquired it in your past.
Bad habits reside in the now.
New habits require:
Six months of your future time, and
girt and correct actions all along.

     Mythical time
unfolds in present time
unravels in literal minds—
real, imagined, fictionalized,
     Always in Now-Time.

BU2872

3.42.1
Title

          ticking my life away
indifferent clocks
          everywhere

BU 2649

3.42.2
Title

time runs
does not wait
hustles fast
lingers not
cannot stop

BU2866

3.1
pristine possibilities

in every moment
today is created anew—
          pristine possibilities
     changing opportunities
          depending on you

BU2504

How to Live a Good Life: Advice From Wise Persons

3.2.1
Precious Flowers in the Sky

To dance at the still point of the Time beyond time,
     Beyond pasts, within futures, this Moment
Now and forever, beyond minds.
     Not knowing of Who or why
We stroll in rose gardens, and Love.

BU2652

Precious Flowers in the Sky

3.2.2
Truths about the Future?

For the moment, Now, for me,
the world is the case.
Yesterday, the world was
actually the case.
Tomorrow's events are not the case.

Only the Present and Past are Actual
The Future is bounded by possibilities:
uncertainties, unpredictability, chances,
accidents, unknowns, contingencies ...
And quasi-informative necessities.

God knows the future some say.
I don't think that way.

Some statements about future events
Are neither necessary nor impossible
and have no truth value.

4.  Future: maybe, planned, anticipated,
      uncertain, predicted, assumed

4.3
Title

Things could be completely otherwise
Than they are now.
But they are not.
In the future they will be otherwise, and
In the past they were otherwise not.

Time conveys a new sense to us.

BU2891

4.3.1
Title

I can know much about the future
without certainty about many things/events
and certainly about contingent events/things
and certainly not about everything---
I'm content, for now, planning a trip next Spring.

BU3127

4.4.1
Later!

"It really is not the moment."
It's not a good time.
Something's important at work!
               We'll talk later.
               See Ya! Bye.

BU2513

4.4.2
Title

Time slipped and slid
On the path to the future
Unsure of its direction.
Pushed by the Past;
Traveling very fast!

BU3013

4.5
Dancing At the Stillpoint Bar

running out of time
for catching up
with the future
     now
a problem

          my mind grinds
my times
into memories
so fine
they disappear

To dance at the still point
Of the Time beyond time,
Beyond pasts, within futures,
     this Moment
Now and forever, beyond minds.

Gushen Grove Sonnets

BU2725

4.6
Will Cherished Ideals Survive

No Guarantees that to the End
Our cherished ideals will survive,
Our great great grandchildren will thrive,
Our monuments stand ...
Our guarantees?

This tree my great great grandmother planted,
This dog-eared Leaves of Grass on my desk,
This classic folksong on my breath,
This heirloom apple in my hand ...

This day,
no guarantees
for or against.
Good! So we strive on,
Their and our hopes in our hands now.

BU2728

5.2
Pulling Onions

The Onion of Being
Never stops growing
Layering layer over layers
Giving us one peel a day
On our life's way

BU3000

Pulling Onions

The Tick-Tock Tractatus

Time - Quotations

5.3.
Here at Any Age

Nice to be Here
Nice to be 80
Nice to be respected
Nice to be healthy—
Nice to be Anywhere.

BU2505

5.4
0. Counting the Moons Over La Push

1. Moon of the Wind
2. Moon of the Herring
3. Moon of the Raven
4. Moon of the Grandmother
5. Moon of the Summer Sun

5.5
Cream Floats on Milk

     The thoughts carry themselves:
     As cream floats on milk
As the beach ball bounces on white-water
As the dreams flow in sober sleep.
Sometimes BAD! As in: Smoke on the breeze.

BU2614

5.5.1
Title

Time travel - imaginary
Fictional - hypothetical-figurative
Back to the Future - reel time
Forward to the Past - speculate
Fantasies in the Now - create

BU3012

5.6
Here and Gone

Winter weeks we huddled by the hot stove,
Spring days we shivered in the sun,
Summer hours we sat in the shade,
Autumn minutes we stared at moon.
     We had idle thoughts, we had no thoughts.

Life made our hearts cry, and it lifted our spirits high.
     The ordinary, the exceptional,
     The chosen, the accepted,
The very good, the very bad,
Fresh figs, rotten peaches.

The beautiful, the deformed.
They appeared and disappeared.
     Samsara and Nirvana ....
     Here and Gone.

BU2663

Shifu Miao Zhang

Meetings with Master Chang San-Feng

5.6.1
Title

Things could be completely otherwise
Than they are now.
But they are not.
In the future they will be otherwise, and
In the past they were otherwise alot.

BU 2891

5.6.2
Title

drifted off on a dream
time disappeared
obscured by sleep
hours erased
timeless in dreamless space

BU2924

5.6.3
Title

Days do go on and on
Complaining about their dull mornings
And endless monotonous afternoons
Bringing only boredom and fatigue---
Even Time has a right to complain.

BU2985

5.6.4
Title

Where does the Present go when it becomes the Past?
Where is the past?
Where does the Future go when it becomes Now?
Where is the Future?

Where is Now?
What is Now?
How long is now?---
Misleading questions, confusing poetry.

"now" does not specify a time

BU2815

BBB Brown Book

6.  Beginning: renewal, starting, enthusiasm

7.  Ending: wrapping up, stopping, death

7.3
Title

Before You Were Born

BU2716

7.4.1
Title

Oftentimes,
a serious difficulty:
Is knowing when and
to then actually
come to a complete Stop.

BU2733

7.4.2
Title

They ran out of time
The game ended on time
They lost this time.
They all got back to the bus in time.
They will do better next time.

BU2835

8.  Middle: in progress, half-way

8.3
Title

Time shows it sense
In everything we know and sense.
Time ain't true or false
Winter comes on time, never faults---
My old photographs fade over time.

BU3233

8.4.1
Title

That such and such is the case
May piss me off for all the day
Why should it be this damn way?

Next month, such and such will not be the case.
I will be very pleased come that day.

Quintain Poetry

Reading About Wittgenstein 1975-

BU3431

8.4.2
Title

Travel light
Even yesterday is a heavy backpack.
Travel slowly
Even tomorrow can wait---
Move on, don't hesitate.

BU2890

8.4.3
Title

We want to escape
the clutches of time
the body's decline
the impertinence of time---
No Way. Your Mine. It's Time!

- Baruch Spinoza, The Conatus

- Arthur Schopenhauer, The Will to Live

BU2883

9.3
Did the Demons Listen?

I told the Black Clouds to Run.
I asked the Deep Fog to Lift.
I questioned the Demons in the still sea.

Do I Personify Nature's Beings?
Yes, of course, that's poetry.

9.3.1
Title

Our notions of time and time-games,
hang on the changing vocabularies
we/I/you/us choose to use
in a strong logic of description-depiction
of the actual flow of time under our shoes.

BU3269

9.3.2
Title

Some lingering
around discussions about some philosophical matters
now appeared pointless these days:
false, outdated, outlandish, nonsensical,
fictions, laughable, power trips ... often useless
to me and many.
Poetry loves to rock climb on the Edges of Nonsense.

BU3438

9.3.3
Title

Elementary propositions about time
Are often more intermediate in difficulty.
Sometimes statements of staggering complexity.
Give me an example.

Time is not a thing
among other things;
It is a word
floating on vocabularies
speaking of changing things.

BU2978

9.3.6

"What is Time?"
For Wittgenstein:
An unsolvable question,
Complex nonsense,
A muddled up mess.

BU2974

Reading Wittgenstein 1975-

Ray Monk: p. 325

BBB Blue Book:

9.3.7
Title

How many uses
can you
think about for the word 'time'.
Teach me how to use time-words.
Take your time. I have a lifetime.

BU2979

meaning = use

9.3.8
Title

"i before e, except after c' = Rule.
before now
now after before
later after now
now before later

BU2962

9.3.9
Title

Many have hung their philosophy
On the sober or silly rack of poetry
Proselyting their opinions on morality
Providing profound snapshots of reality
Encouraging our gratitude for vibrant vitality.

BU29981

10.3
Title

"Be silent," mystics advise
They have no information to provide.
No facts to confirm or verify.
No perfect picture to open our eyes---
They ought to be silent; but they tell poetic lies.

BU2858

11.3
Dream Time of a Body-Mind

Remembering is time, forgetting is time.
Black lines of scripture tell times,
Great and small doubts reveal time,
Hungry ghosts and naked demons are time,
Newborn Gods were conceived in time.

Death is time, and conception is time.
Vulgar time, broken time,
Our time, space-time, in time,
The Right time, before time, Sublime time,
Standard time, beyond time, past time.

Dream Time of a still body-mind is time.
Time and Time again,
Explaining All and not
explaining any-thing.

BU2768

Time

Time - Quotations

11.4
Title

The Claws of the Enigmatic
Pried open my ho hum soul
Showed me mystical realms of being.
Granted me, for hours, blissful ecstasy.
Opened my mind, for months, to alternative realities.

That, truly, deeply affected me.
I, truly, treasured such fond memories.
But, truly, it's my ordinary daily living, you see,
The worldly life, strange, passing, odd, oblique...
Reality wears the Enigmatic Clothing Time Brand.

BU2995

11.4.1.
Title

The Epiphany, the excitement, the Flash (2988)
Came to me like metallic lightening:
Instantly, Directly, Momentarily, Intimately, Timely.
Unasked for wonder filling me---
The Mystical showed itself willingly.

BU2988

11.5
At the Mysterious Pass

Standing at the Mysterious Pass
Centered in the Eternal Now,
     Balanced in Body and Open in Mind,
Rooted into the Sacred Space,
Motionless as the Golden Mountain

Fingers around the Primeval Sphere.
Dragons and Tigers are still dreaming
     Ready for Rebirth.
I breathe in, the World Breathes Out.
The Gate of Space opens

Heaven moves and Yang is born.
The hands move out, embracing the One.
     The mind settles and is clear.
The Dragon Howls,
Ravens fill the Vast Cauldron

Mind forms melt like mercury,
Spirit rises in the Clouds of Eternity.
     Yin appears like the moon at dusk.
I breathe out, the World Breathes In.
The Doors of Emptiness close

Earth quiets and Yin is born.
The hands move in, entering the One.
     The body settles and becomes whole.
The Tiger Roars,
The Great Ox is nourished by the Valley Spirit

Substances spark from flaming furnaces,
Essence roots in the Watery Flesh.
     Yang appears like the sun at dawn.
Dragons and Tigers
Transformed within the Mysterious Pass

Chanting and Purring.
     Awakened,
          Peaceful,
               Free.

BU2685

Opening at the Mysterious Pass

11.6
Chanting Canyon Streams

Opening bell
echoes from the canyon walls---
raindrops on the river.
The sounds of rocks bouncing off rocks;
the shadows of trees traced on trees.

I sit, still.
The canyon river chants,
moving mountains.
The sermon spun on the still point:
dropping off eternity, picking up time;

Letting go of self,
awakened to Mind.

BU2739

12.  Beauty: art, crafts, music, reading/writing

12.3
Title

Saying the same old things
about the same old past things, is
like installing a clock above the door, or
like bragging about trivial deeds---
Not turning on the road to Contemporary Creativity.

BU2583

12.4
Double Visions

An eager face staring into the Rich silence
Of mirrored space devoid of mind;
Not projecting or connecting, but reflecting.
Supreme non-fictions, Things
     Naked as they are, as they are.

Inevitably, as sunshine blares on stones,
Green erupts from Brown.
Curiosity Swings across the Mind
past junkyards of ideas, peeling metaphors,
rusting rhymes, and concrete cliches,

Into the Center of Imagination City!
We are as we are:
Twofolds, Fourfolds, Eightfolds of
Realities and Possibilities.
      Pushing on. Pushing on!

BU2623

12.5
Title

The totality of facts
not things
meant truth to him
     philosophically—
               that is, pictorially.

BU2643

Reading About Wittgenstein 1975-

Footnotes, Bibliography, Links, Research

13.   Goodness: ethics, morality, will, manners,
         social, fate, freedom

13.3
Pangloss? Who's He?

In This
the Best
of All Possible Worlds;
          the year
ended with a failure.

BU2101

13.4
Moving to Middle Ground

Outside as distinct
from Inside;
          Others as distinct
          from Self?
Inter-being Compromise.

BU2622

Inter-Being

Buddhism

13.5
Title

Freedom of the will is constrained
by sensible knowledge of the future
by using antecedent causes and reasons for
Finding ways for your family to survive---
Don't pretend to not know your future.

BU3007

13.6
Title

He became more efficient
Using less time to get more tasks done
Working smarter and faster
Saving time and money for the company...
And his pay stayed the same.

BU2831

14.  Philosophy: ethics, history, analysis,
        arguments, logic, rhetoric

14.3
Title

Not using certainty
As a functional criterion;
     Frees us to find
Reliable solutions to our
Time Related Problems at hand.

BU2522

14.4
A Little of This—A Little of That

Does our alloted time
determine our reality?
Or, does reality
determine our allotted time?
Six of one, half-dozen of the other.

BU2547

14.4
Title

Gold Star = clear, verifiable, logical,
definite, declarative, decidable, literal,
descriptive

Silver Star = poetic, musical, artistic,
sensitive, humorous, metaphorical,
figurative, creative

Bronze Star = silence [despite the
Talkers-Promoters], walking, listening,
meditation.

BU2892

14.6
Bumps and Roundabouts on the Road of Time

It is 3 am,
therefore it is not 4 pm.

The past was once
both the future and the present.

She was late, because
she was not on time.

Today, in our world,
it is both
March 5th and March 6th.

BU2859

14.6.1
Title

A specified/defined event
occurred on Friday
but not on Sunday;
But not at the same time
on the same Tuesday.
(E v ~E) Today
(E ^ ~E) This Week

BU3073

14.6.2
Some of Prior's Propositions for Time Logic

P It was the case that______ 1
F It will be the case that______2
G It will always be the case that______3
H It always was the case that______4

Probably adequate for many "cases"

1. the water was polluted
2. "what?", examples?? It will very likely be the case that___.
3. 2+2=4
4. oxygen and hydrogen made water

Arthur Prior, Time and Modality, 1957

BU2864

14.6.3
Title

Facts about things are useful indeed
"Facts" are said by both who and when
"Truths about time" became falsehoods now.
The Thing-Totality of Our World
Is Shown, not said; but translated by "facts."

BU3274

14.8
The Case of the Fly in the Kitchen

You say that the world is everything
that is the case.

What would it be like
if it were not?

What's not the case? Plenty! Case Closed!

Is nothing the case?
Seems a mistake.
Like a reductio ad absurdam clam bake,
When nobody came,
early or late.

Or, it's not the case that the world
is everything that is the case.
What? Strange? A fly buzzing in a bottle.
That "Fish fly to Seattle" is not the case
still tells us something about the world we make.

Or, is it that not everything
in the world is the case.
That suggestion
that's learning towards truth
in some comforting familiar manner

Appeals to my communal action words, and
My idiosyncratic individual voice in time.

Was it:
Was it the case once in the past or not?
Is it now th case or not?
Will it ever be the case or not?
Was everything ever the case? Ever?

We enjoyed those playful games:
wrestling with hypothetical cases,
find the imaginary treasure chest,
watching the film detective solve the case,
Until they broke the lock on her case.

a case
the case
one case
many cases
close case

BU2727

14.8.1
Title

The fly was coached
Out of the bottle;
The mind was coached
Out of useless tendencies.
Sometimes, Wittgenstein's methods worked.

BU2757

Reading Wittgenstein

15.  History: landmark events, books/printing,
        memory

15.3
Did Richard Rorty Read Poetry

Did Schopenhauer play the flute at ten?
Did Kant walk everyday at noon?
Did Socrates wrestle for fun at nine?
Was Marcus Aurelius an Emperor?
Was Martin Heidegger a Nazi stooge?

BU2516

15.4
Title

          Bad karma bleeding
over centuries of hate
a heartless eye for a blind eye
a toothless scream for another
          fate, fate, fate...

BU2648

15.5
Title

My dad was a fact of my life,
For 53 years a fact of reality.
He died, time moved on,
His fixed factuality grew dim.
Once his case back when, not his case Now;
And not everything remained the same.

BU3481

15.6
Title

How did Infinity fit in the palm of your hand?
Mathematics and physics had a new plan.
How did Biology grow in time?
Darwin connected changes aligned.
A Paradigm shift quickly began.

BU2922

16.   Eternity: forever, infinite, unimaginable

Preface

Notes, Footnotes, Books, Links, Comments
Research, Related, Relevant, Remarks

Index to Bundled Up Quintains Related to Time:

# 2504, 2505, 2509, 2513, 2516, 2522, 2547, 2583,
# 2590, 2597, 2617, 2622, 2623, 2643, 2648, 2649
# 2652, 2663,2685, 2727, 2728, 2733, 2739, 2757
# 2767, 2768, 2769, 2831, 2858, 2864, 2866, 2872, 2890, 2891
# 2892, 2932, 2988, 2995, 3007, 3012, 3013, 3073
# 3102, 3103, 3120, 3127, 3155
# 3233, 3269, 3316, 3323, 3338, 3431, 3438, 3452, 3481

The Tick-Tock Tractatus by Mike Garofalo

Index to Bundled Up Quintains Related to Wittgenstein:

#154, 155, 160, 233, 544, 846, 854, 1294, 1665, 1714, 2178
# 2427, 2501, 2643, 2645, 2654, 2675, 2687, 2688, 2723, 2730
# 2733, 2735, 2760, 2751, 2757, 2788, 2793, 2796, 2800, 2806
# 2808, 2854, 2850, 2855, 2863, 2864, 2876, 2920,
# 2928, 2935, 2983, 2989

Key to Book Titles

BU = Bundled Up, Volumes 1 - 5 by Mike Garofalo, 2021-

TTT = Tick-Tock Tractatus by Mike Garofalo, 2026-

TLP = Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922-

PI = Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1953-

Reading About Wittgenstein 1975-

Footnotes, Remarks, Bibliography, Links, Commentary
For the Tick-Tock Tractatus 2026-