Unlocking Time: How Jumping Timelines Can Revolutionize Your Writing Craft
Te torino haere whakamua, whakamuri in Māori means, At the same time as the spiral
is going forward, it is returning.
The spiral creates the space for time — past, present, future — to meld together into the now. Our ancestors directing, guiding, defining as if they were here in the now and in the future. In this way, the past is always in front of us, and the Māori understanding of the spiral brings that into clarity. Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, in her book, “Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures,” investigates the way the spiral exists within Māori culture and narratives. DeLoughrey states, “The spiral gestures to the past while moving into the future, positioning historical events in the present so that time becomes coeval or simultaneous.” We are our past, our history. Here. Now.
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