our lives unfold moment by moment by moment though we try to clump them together into years and weeks and minute-by-minute or compartmentalize them into home and work and hobby and now and then and now-and-then and maybe it helps to think there is some underlying structure to it all since otherwise we are like untethered balloons caught up in an errant breeze that pulls us right past the delineations of time and titles and self-imposed strictures and how would we ever manage to define ourselves if we just let life unfold moment by moment by moment