Timefulness
These three powerful books have in common a concern for how we use reason to navigate the dilemmas of our times. Being “Timeful”, “Factful” and aware of “Deep Time” as we build the stories that make sense of ourselves, means stepping outside of our immediate reality and looking to see where we fit in a much bigger scheme of things. It means seeing ourselves as deeply embedded in myriad complex systems and working with humility and a little awe to understand and act. Below I’ve copied my thinking about each book or you can read the original reviews here on Goodreads . Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part geology lesson, part teleology and part plea to take seriously our responsibilities to our children and the planet. By taking the long view of history (that’s billions of years), Bjornerud reminds us that the human species is part of something very much bigger than ourselves. We are the product of evo...