Time
Annie Fox, one of my Facebook friends has a habit of placing one word online for comment and possibly because another New Year is nigh, she threw in the word “time’’.
Her move followed another conversation with a learned friend, Dr Pamela Schulz, who told me she is researching a “discourse of time” and its effects on public opinion.
This seemed to be a very curly topic and I prodded her for more information to be told her co-researcher is the eminent Dr Andrew Cannon, Deputy Chief Magistrate of SA.
“We will be looking at how time is being used as a yard-stick for what the courts do,’’ she replied adding their study will be published next year.
My thoughts on time are basic in comparison.
Time is a gift to be used to love ourselves, to love others, to create and to develop whatever unique skills we are blessed with. The way we use time defines our life force and our qualities as human beings.
And Annie liked these sentiments.
Whatever we think and however we express it, time is precious. The older we get, time slips by as fast as sand through a timer. Watch it happen to get a valuable lesson on the fleeting nature of time.
Which is why, I know the answer of on equestion in this week’s Brainwaves in the SA Weekend Magazine “What does the Latin expression “tempus fugit” mean?
“Time Flies’’, of course!
my journal | nadine 12/12/2010
3 Comments to “Time”
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By Annie Fox, 15/12/2010 @ 10:25 am
Thankyou for your thoughtful comments inspired by my Word/s of the Day, Nadine. They always enhance my quality of time.
For me Time is such a deep,deep concept. Ever fleeting, ever present. Still and moving. Deeply personal and deeply universal simultaneously. Each mili second interpreted differently by each living organsim/consciousness.
My personal reason for choosing “Time” as the word of the day was concerning the death of someone very special to me. I was thinking that Time, in this instance, was my greatest and dearest friend, in the knowledge that dwelling with grief changes as Time works with us and we work with Time.
Blessings to you Nadine. I look forward to more of your thoughts as we continue to dwell in human Time.
Yours in words – Annie Fox
By Pamela Schulz, 02/01/2011 @ 3:32 pm
I was aghast to read headlines screaming that babies who dared to be so inappropriate as to arrive pre midnight on new year’s eve would be “bad timing”. Today I found another “Time is money baby” and “Baby’s arrival leaves Mum Short”. So valuable is time and the timing of certain things that babies are “blamed” for preventing mum being able to get paid parental leave. Some of the stories I found disquieting indeed. Meanwhile though love your thoughts on time as it is significant and much sough after as a valued commodity.
By nadine, 02/01/2011 @ 7:28 pm
Pamela, your expertise in linguistics is reflected so well here and thankyou for commenting on my web.