We need a poly-temporal worldview to embrace the overlapping rates of change that our world runs on, especially the huge, powerful changes that are mostly invisible to us.
Geologist Marcia Bjornerud teaches that kind of time literacy. With it, we become at home in the deep past and engaged with the deep future. We learn to “think like a planet.” A professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, Marcia Bjornerud is author of *Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World* <https://smile.amazon.com/Timefulness-Thinking-Like-Geologist-World/dp/0691181209/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1> (02018) and *Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth* <https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JAH7RE/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1> (02005). [Note: If advance tickets sell out, just come to the theater. Walk-ups always get in.] *"*Timefulness*," *Marcia Bjornerud, *SFJAZZ Center, Hayes Valley,* San Francisco, *7pm, *Monday July 22*. *The show starts promptly at 7:30pm. To be sure of a seat: *•* Long Now Members <https://longnow.org/membership/> can use the discount code on the Bjornerud Seminar page to reserve 2 free seats <http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/jul/22/timefulness/>. *•* You can purchase tickets for $25 each <http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/jul/22/timefulness/>. • Seminar at SFJAZZ Center <http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions> 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 *•* Tune into the live stream <http://longnow.org/live/> for Long Now Members at 7:30 PT - become a member <https://longnow.org/membership/> for just $8 a month. Share this talk: Marcia Bjornerud, "Timefulness" Long Now talk on 7/22 https://bit.ly/2XLopQK Talks coming up: August 13 - Monica Smith, Cities: The First 6,000 Years <http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/aug/13/cities-first-6000-years/> September 29 - Edward Burtynsky, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch October 14 - Suhanya Raffel, World Art Through The Asian Perspective High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits (such as priority tickets) are available to Long Now members. Membership, which starts at $8/month ($96/year), helps support the series and other Long Now projects. Joinable here <https://longnow.org/membership/>. This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Free audio and my summaries of all previous talks are available for download here <http://longnow.org/seminars/> (or stay up to date with the podcast here <http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/>). You'll find a range of long-term thinking items on our Blog <http://blog.longnow.org/> (RSS <http://feeds.feedburner.com/longnow>). If you would like to be notified by email (like this one) of forthcoming talks, go here <http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/salt> to sign up online. Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now -- 415-561-6582 x3 or danie...@longnow.org. You are welcome to forward this notice to anyone you think might be interested. -- Alexander Rose LONG NOW <http://longnow.org/people/staff/zander/> & <http://www.longnow.org/> THE INTERVAL <http://theinterval.org/>
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