Forgiveness and time

In our scramble to make things feel okay again, we often ignore the way our wounds have changed us.

This article was originally published on my personal website.

But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.’

—“As I Walked Out One Evening,” W.H. Auden

In Carlo Rovelli's 2018 book The Order of Time, he points to an arresting fact: in all of physics, there is only a single equation that acc…