“A Slower Mode of Time” by Chris Sullivan

“A Slower Mode of Time” by Chris Sullivan

Editor’s note: In his reflection “A Slower Mode of Time”, Chris Sullivan contrasts urban haste with nature’s unhurried rhythms, weaving cicadas, childhood memories, and captive flamingos into a meditation on suspended instincts, looping time, and the quiet grace of slower living. The drone of cicada song drifts into the apartment from the wooded hillside across the road. It arrives in waves. Internal chorus and coda mingle, abruptly fade, and r…