Hiva Shesha's Shuttle

“The sands of time is a complex metaphor, and as historians, we must understand its meaning. We are not here to play in a sandbox and find all the hidden rocks. History is not the unraveling of truth or unearthing forgotten knowledge. Rather, 'the sands of time' are mixed with our rational minds to form glass. We are opticians, further carving that glass into lenses, which are layered together. Sometimes the view becomes clearer; other times, opaque. We cannot change the sands of time: We can only sharpen our lenses.”-Hiva Sheesha, <i>A History of the Matari People</i>