Time is on my side, yes it is M. Jagger

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My pictures today are from Longwood–historic downtown area—http://www.longwoodfl.org/content/1115/151/163/default.aspx which most of you from Central Florida doesn’t know exists. There’s even a review on Trip Advisor:  http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g34400-d8600208-Reviews-Longwood_Historic_District-Longwood_Florida.html I am surely ready for the weekend—area you?   Honorable mention today is Papilio in Mt Dora:  http://www.papiliomountdora.com/

 

 

 

There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.     EUGENE O’NEILL, A Moon for the Misbegotten

 

 

 

 

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Did you ever think about how weird time is—it’s not real, is it….minutes, seconds even hours are an abstract formula at best.  Something to let us better control our activities and greatly contributing to our lack of control of our blood pressure.   We phase the moon for months and the evolution of the earth for years and the sun for day and night….but were we ever meant to set such a fine point on our days?   When you go on a vacation trip to a tropical island do you look at the clock often—or do you leave your watch hidden somewhere deep in your suit case in the hope that you and it will get lost permanently, but not all in the same place.
Or to quote Bertrand Russel in Mysticism and Logic:

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

 

 

But we seemed to have  been intent  with finding a method for controlling our lives:  “The rolling ball clock was invented by 17th century French engineer Nicolas Grollier. This clock kept time using rolling balls on a zigzag track. The path took anywhere from 15 seconds to a full minute for the ball to complete. Once it reached its destination, it tripped a mechanism that both moved hands of the clock forward and reversed the tilt to return the ball to its original position. However, the clock’s main flaw was the cleanliness of the track. When dust accumulated, it slowed the ball down, which resulted in very unreliable timekeeping.”    http://listverse.com/2013/06/26/10-ingenious-ancient-time-keeping-devices/    I could come up with all kind of comments on that, but I am on good behavior.

 

 

 

 

 

Time is money.   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Advice to Young Tradesmen

AS Americans from the gold (I mean good) ole USA I think Franklin’s statement made years ago is a prophetic as anything any oracle ever uttered.  We are judged by our use of time.  We are punished for being only a few minutes late for work and this is taught early in our schools.  We are docked time (and hence money).  Daydreaming and leisure are not productive or looked well on and a clock watcher (someone anticipating lunch hour, quitting time or worse yet the weekend) is never a person of note in the big world of business.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.  THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain

 

Was it first established to determine events—like holy festivals or when to plant the crops or to remember a special event  or to control our activities or is it to civilize our ways?   We must have guidelines and the more the better in a world that is so distracted by the chaotic.  Without a specific reminder we might run away at lunch time.  Wander down a path in the park or a inviting street we’ve not ventured along before and not return till the business day is done with our work  still setting at our desk neglected and abandoned.  Now that would never do, would it?

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard’s Almanac

And what is the squandering, the wandering or the work?  Sometimes getting a nice level of both is the hardest thing we ever accomplish.   For if we love life do we spend it all working—-or on the other hand can we afford to wander away at the loss of the income which supplies us with the very necessities that make life as we know it possible?
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Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.  ANGELUS SILESIUS

Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to.”

LAO TZU, O Magazine, Jan. 2007

 

 

 

 

So what’s  a person to do in this world that hasn’t improved a lot about the importance of man —but rather put a finer time line on it’s  demands.  How can we treasure ourselves and our TIME without failing in our responsibilities and loosing our income?  Or must we decide on only having one.

1.  Let go of perfectionism

2.  Exercise and meditate

3.   Limit time-wasting activities and people

4.  Unplug

5.  Change the structure of your life

6.  Start small. Build from there.

Time is a dream … a destroying dream;
It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

CONRAD AIKEN, The House of Dust

 

 

 

 

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The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

CRAIG CALLENDER, Scientific American, June 2010

 

 

 

 

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