In this short excerpt from the collaborative zine project, Bodies of Land, Marika discusses the secrets of how the Earth keeps her time, in what she calls the “practice of presence”. As we become more in tune with the Earth’s rhythms, we find that the human-made construct of time is indeed an illusion, and it is through the active practicecof observing nature that we cultivate an ability to place ourselves within the omnipresent timeline of the Earth herself.