65 Octobers

03 Oct, 2025

One may see that as both a heck of a lot already, and vanishingly little, at the very same time.

The "a heck of a lot" (i think? ::chuckle::) list, of my existence, in the following values:

1. Years: 65 years
   …plus 6 months, 27 days, 10 hours, 2 minutes, 59 seconds.


2. Months: 786 months
   …plus 27 days, 10:02:59.


3. Weeks: 3,421 weeks
   …plus 5 days, 10:02:59.


4. Days: 23,952 days


5. Hours: 574,858 hours


6. Minutes: 34,491,482 minutes


7. Seconds: 2,069,488,979 seconds

The "vanishingly little" (for sure!) list:

• Octobers since the Big Bang: approx. 13,800,000,000
  0.00000047% of the cosmos' history.


• Octobers since the Earth formed: ≈4,540,000,065
  1.4 × 10⁻⁸ of its total history.


• Octobers since bipedal hominids starting walking upright: ≈3,700,065
  0.0018% of that entire bipedal saga.


• Octobers since the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens: ≈ 150,000
  0.043% of humanity's entire run.


• Octobers since the Neolithic Revolution — the shift from foraging to farming: ≈ 12,065
  0.54% of that agricultural span.


• Octobers since the rise of cities & written language: ≈5,000
  1.3% since the first marks were made on clay tablets.


• Octobers since the printing revolution (i.e., Gutenberg): 575
  11.3% from the time Gutenberg's machine became canonical to human civilization.

And so forth, and so on.

[ At the Fort Mason Community Garden, at zazen earlier this morning... ]