01:10, mirror hour
In 01:10, the hour and minutes do not repeat the same pair. They reverse it: the 01 of the hour becomes the 10 of the minutes. A reversed mirror hour in the small hours of the night, where the digits on either side of the colon read back to front.
The meaning of number 2
The 2 is two strokes that reach for each other, a curve tilting toward another. When your date reduces to this number, the stance that appears is the one who is never quite alone: there is always another in the equation. You feel it on the skin before the mind names it, that antenna picking up the mood of a room the moment you walk in, the small shift in someone's voice that everyone else misses. The 2 is the hand that holds the other hand, the second beat of the measure, the bridge laid across the gap between two shores.