Venturing into our inner cave implies a journey into a smaller and smaller space: large to small. But it’s really the other way around. As we deepen in that space, the moment itself expands.

However small, the uncertainty of trust is consistent with thermodynamic ideas of disorder. Freezing into a state of unconditional trust—or rigid mistrust—is like insisting on zero entropy, a static, rather uninteresting existence.

Established relationships don’t manifest in neat, defined and equally segmented paths. Contriving or clinging — the fixation things happening a specific way — is insistence on control, where fewer possibilities represent low thermodynamic entropy, or disorder. Chaotic pathways are part of life, and the myriad of ways people form close relationships is connected to universal disorder.

If hope seems inaccessible, be assured that subconscious can’t become hopeless. Entropy ensures possibility: fear holds a glimmer of hope. ​

For the apparent freedom to not follow COVID-19 pandemic public health guidelines, there is a steep price: more illness and fatalities, extended lockdowns, and worse economic damage.

Around the holidays, it seems both joy and sadness have great potential for becoming amplified in our daily experiences.

Constantly moving, we walk through the life timeline as a series of smaller pathways within the broader journey. Each step is a moment, with unavoidable change defined by the permanent link to time. All matter in the universe is locked into two things: physical form and the arrow of time.