"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
David Bowie
14 Feb 2020
Browsing tag: Time
14 Jan 2020
"Time is a mind construct. It's not real." Prince
07 Aug 2016
I must have been about nine or ten years old when I encountered the word “ochre”. I didn’t know what it meant and I must have read it in a sentence something along the lines of, ‘The leaves on the tree had turned ochre.’ I remember looking up the word to make sense of it and probably found a definition along the lines of, ‘An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.' My confusion would have expanded further, when trying to understand how to pronounce the word I would
21 Jul 2016
"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
Arthur Schopenhauer
11 Jun 2016
At the age of about 3 or 4 my mother left England returning to Africa with her family because her father, an engineer in the British Army, was stationed in East Africa for the tail end of World War II. The family moved into a very simple dwelling in the Katavi region of what was then Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and there she enjoyed a carefree childhood for a few years. At the age of 7 my mother’s mother died from cerebral malaria leaving behind 4 children, the youngest only 18 months old. Distraught and at a loss with what to
07 Mar 2016
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.' M. Scott Peck
04 Sep 2015
I remember back in the 1980's there was a TV series called Dallas. I was a huge addict and had a crush on Pammy Ewing but also secretly loved Sue Ellen Ewing because she was a booze-addled victim repeatedly drawn back to the vodka. The producers of this series probably kept Dallas running for 2 or 3 sessions too long. The plot became more and more clichéd and in the end most people just stopped enjoying the program. There is a danger when we stay involved in things in the same way for too long that we become hackneyed. The new