This past Wednesday, I turned 16. Plus 70 years. And I am in love. She’s 15. Plus 70 years and lives 1600 miles away from me. That doesn’t matter. We love each other. She’s here now and we build memories to sustain us through the time we’ll be apart until we are together again.
I spent 32 years having to account for time for work. Living under the tyranny of time. Rushing all over the state to be places on time, sending in reports detailing how I spent my time, scheduling my time months into the future. The day I retired I took off my watch. I have not put it on since. Freedom.
Dr. Deborah Hall: The gods had decreed that this stumbling fool would be at the right place and rightly dispositioned at Christopher City, Tucson, circa 6:00 in the Evening, 11 July 1971, and the rest has been a 54-year-ROMANCE with Nancy, become IN with a whole family community of UNGERS in rural Indiana . . .
I am afraid to miss such moments as you describe.
Maybe even too dumb to realize what one misses.
But, wow, THAT MOMENT, like Robert Frost's path (The Path Not Taken) has made all of the difference.
From your own insightful writing, without breaking patient confidentiality, it would be most delightful to learn your own insights from these moments.
As a Catholic, who loves Thomas Merton, and also who loves Buddhism, at least in the ways accessible to me through the Holy Thich Nhat Hanh, and especially as much as I can understand from the Holy NAGARJUNA, MOMENT and ETERNITY seem to mirror each other.
Time is a mystery.
Hannah Arendt noted that hers was wholly a life in the Mind, and as such was one, continuous MOMENT.
I LOVE your writing.
Your poetic pen moves the eye along your page and delivers insightful, clear truths spoken simply and yet in depth.
Having studied the history of Time from an a anthropological perspective, my locus had a profoundly different focus.
Essential to the concept of how community and labor and sleep are linked together. Neither the clock nor the body keep track, it is based on circadian rhythms .
Still haven’t quite figured out what that is - but it seems to have something to do with roosters waking us up.
What time is it? Time to act, me thinks. Time to either succumb and aquiesce and knuckle under...or act with confidence and indignation and a commitment to decency, a dedication to our Constitution, the rule of law, and a love of our fellow humans.
It is long past time to quash the hate, the persecution, the bigotry, the misogyny, the racism, the totalitarianism and the CRUELTY.
It is in fact, time to turn the tide, reverse course and re-establish the balance of power. Time for the haters to take a hike into oblivion.
Time for those who think Jesus had good ideas... to employ them and to expell those who use his name in vain.
The cross wearing hypocrits who bloviate and claim some sort of righteousness are acting like Nazis. Time to stop them before they do it again. NEVER AGAIN!
Deborah, I’m sure that you know that Albert Einstein discovered that time is an illusion and space-time is a continuum. So although most of us humans divide time into past, present, and future, in reality time is all one.
Time does depend on the perspective of the observer, and when understood as a matter of perspective I suppose it is important to us human beings to decide what time it is for us.
But what about the perspective of an amoeba or of another long extinct non-human creature?
And what does time mean to a worm??
But I do thank you for encouraging us to think about what time means to us.
Does anyone really know what time it is? Our lives start and then stop at some point, there is no guaranty it will be when we are old. People deserve our attention and care, but do any of us know just how much and how soon they will need it? We do the best we can with the time we have, it works best, from my experience, if kindness is our guide and gratitude is our attitude.
I think she's talking about time in opposition to non-time; that is, individually, our death. So in the fullness of this daily waking into life, what sort of action will we choose?
The reassessing goes on
until we enter
the next room
of the dream.
Very nice. Glad I found you. Looking forward to more good thinking beautifully packaged.
This past Wednesday, I turned 16. Plus 70 years. And I am in love. She’s 15. Plus 70 years and lives 1600 miles away from me. That doesn’t matter. We love each other. She’s here now and we build memories to sustain us through the time we’ll be apart until we are together again.
You are grounded and blessed.
Blessed? Definitely. Grounded? I’m not so sure. Sometimes. Maybe.
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Very thought-provoking, Dr. Deborah. Thank you for sharing your insights.
I spent 32 years having to account for time for work. Living under the tyranny of time. Rushing all over the state to be places on time, sending in reports detailing how I spent my time, scheduling my time months into the future. The day I retired I took off my watch. I have not put it on since. Freedom.
Another well written epistle that paints a life roadmap that can bring rewards that are innumerable.
Remember time is dimensional. It is both momentary and also a long term feeling.
Thank you Dr. Hall. At the age of 65 the time for me to act is now. Always now, not later.
All the best,
Steve
Dr. Deborah Hall: The gods had decreed that this stumbling fool would be at the right place and rightly dispositioned at Christopher City, Tucson, circa 6:00 in the Evening, 11 July 1971, and the rest has been a 54-year-ROMANCE with Nancy, become IN with a whole family community of UNGERS in rural Indiana . . .
I am afraid to miss such moments as you describe.
Maybe even too dumb to realize what one misses.
But, wow, THAT MOMENT, like Robert Frost's path (The Path Not Taken) has made all of the difference.
From your own insightful writing, without breaking patient confidentiality, it would be most delightful to learn your own insights from these moments.
As a Catholic, who loves Thomas Merton, and also who loves Buddhism, at least in the ways accessible to me through the Holy Thich Nhat Hanh, and especially as much as I can understand from the Holy NAGARJUNA, MOMENT and ETERNITY seem to mirror each other.
Time is a mystery.
Hannah Arendt noted that hers was wholly a life in the Mind, and as such was one, continuous MOMENT.
I LOVE your writing.
Your poetic pen moves the eye along your page and delivers insightful, clear truths spoken simply and yet in depth.
Having studied the history of Time from an a anthropological perspective, my locus had a profoundly different focus.
Essential to the concept of how community and labor and sleep are linked together. Neither the clock nor the body keep track, it is based on circadian rhythms .
Still haven’t quite figured out what that is - but it seems to have something to do with roosters waking us up.
What time is it? Time to act, me thinks. Time to either succumb and aquiesce and knuckle under...or act with confidence and indignation and a commitment to decency, a dedication to our Constitution, the rule of law, and a love of our fellow humans.
It is long past time to quash the hate, the persecution, the bigotry, the misogyny, the racism, the totalitarianism and the CRUELTY.
It is in fact, time to turn the tide, reverse course and re-establish the balance of power. Time for the haters to take a hike into oblivion.
Time for those who think Jesus had good ideas... to employ them and to expell those who use his name in vain.
The cross wearing hypocrits who bloviate and claim some sort of righteousness are acting like Nazis. Time to stop them before they do it again. NEVER AGAIN!
Deborah, I’m sure that you know that Albert Einstein discovered that time is an illusion and space-time is a continuum. So although most of us humans divide time into past, present, and future, in reality time is all one.
Time does depend on the perspective of the observer, and when understood as a matter of perspective I suppose it is important to us human beings to decide what time it is for us.
But what about the perspective of an amoeba or of another long extinct non-human creature?
And what does time mean to a worm??
But I do thank you for encouraging us to think about what time means to us.
Does anyone really know what time it is? Our lives start and then stop at some point, there is no guaranty it will be when we are old. People deserve our attention and care, but do any of us know just how much and how soon they will need it? We do the best we can with the time we have, it works best, from my experience, if kindness is our guide and gratitude is our attitude.
I think she's talking about time in opposition to non-time; that is, individually, our death. So in the fullness of this daily waking into life, what sort of action will we choose?