We Are Given
“ Don’t borrow Time... It has to be given. ” The story of Halfland spontaneously develops from two main sources: closer and closer observation of nature and the making of natural conceptual connections through intuition . The other day, I had a new 1/2L idea that the Time Frog should escape. Time on the loose, time to myself, time unkept appeals to me. I constantly battle with chronological time. I represented it as it was to me, a frog, enigmatic, elusive, slippery, hard to get a hold of, hard to pin down. Today, I randomly opened one of my many private journals for no reason and saw the quote above written several years ago, and immediately thought of something newer still for the story. Halfland's main character, Rana the goatwoman, represents Wisdom, and she is the Keeper of Time. His pond is on her land, etc. What if Rana gave us, the viewers, Time? All the Time in the World, trusted to us from our Wisdom. We get hold it in our...
