Michael Hurst
1 min readAug 24, 2020

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Not buying the notion that time does not exist. That, of course, would depend on what the meaning of "exist" is. But as I sit in my chair in my living room, I think what this particular location looked like last year before I remodeled. Then 50 years ago before the house was built. 200 years ago it was raw land and an indigenous person may have been sitting here. A million years ago probably saw a dinosaur footprint, and a billion years ago it was probably under water. But this particular geographic location has not moved, while what it looks like changed dramatically. And every description I just made defines this particular spot just as much as my butt in my chair. The difference between them is only time.

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Michael Hurst
Michael Hurst

Written by Michael Hurst

Economist and public policy analyst, cyclist and paddler, and incorrigible old coot.

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