When Time Teaches Us

Finding Sankofa moments as time ticks on

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I have never believed in the myth of linear time. An automaton that marches onward into infinity, counting the days to our imminent demise. Music was my first teacher in this regard. Watching as my grandparents listened to Major Harris’s “Love Won’t Let Me Wait,” observing youth re-enter their wizened eyes — a light-hearted sobriety seemed to bubble from…