Don’t worry if, before trying to retrieve your keyring from inside a mailbox, it doesn’t occur to you that you might become stuck, because you’ll have plenty of time to consider it after the fact.
TAGS: confessions, time, worry, regret, keys, mailbox, considerationTime is an illusion…understanding time moreso.
TAGS: time, understandingThere are those who say time is a vexing illusion, others will tell you it’ll take you on the wildest ride of your life, once there was even a brilliant philosopher who claimed the true passage of time could only be measured by the burnt, curled edge of his plastic spatula, but when it comes down to it, there is only one reason for the existence of time and one thing you need to know about it: Friday afternoon Happy Hour begins down at the local tavern at 5:00 p.m. sharp.
TAGS: alcohol, time, philosophyPerhaps the most ambiguous question posed to complete strangers on a regular basis would be: do you have the time?
TAGS: time, ambiguity, strangersTime is one of the more vexing of the inventions, second only to grammar and its famous cousin, fascism.
TAGS: time, inventions, grammar, cousins, fascismUnderstanding time is really just a matter of finding the right saddle for such a wild ride.
TAGS: time, understanding, saddleHow is it that Bob Mould can plumb the depths of my soul from a vantage point ten years ago and a continent away?
TAGS: time, soul, vantage, bob mould, continent, narcissismThe week rolls around much too fast, affirming my belief that calendars are a bad invention.
TAGS: time, inventions, calendarsTime may be artificial and arbitrary and a generally bad idea, but once a week it nearly redeems itself by declaring Friday.
TAGS: time, bad ideas, friday, redemptionWhen did my little shelf of 30 books turn into the “room lined with bookshelves”?
TAGS: books, time, surprisingAfter sitting patiently for aeons, his eyes resting on the same subtly changing piece of earth, he was picked up and suddenly, just for a moment or two, there was movement and colour and boggling eyes, until finally there was nothing.
TAGS: time, boggling, amber, aeons, lizardsThere is nothing so far away as that which involves the tedious passing of time.
TAGS: time, distance, waitingThe last time Uncle Herbert had an extended stay in hospital there were no multitudes of mobile phones, no ubiquity of unplugged laptops, no iPods, no Gameboys, no nothing, just white walls and a book he was too sick to concentrate on reading.
TAGS: time, technology, hospitals
Many mistakenly believe in two types of men’s blue jeans—clean and dirty—which completely ignores one of the most overlooked kinds of all—clean enough.
TAGS: time, laundry, wash boardFruit jars remind me of my simplicity, although there was a time when our relationship was much more complicated.
TAGS: time, complication, simplicity, fruit jar, relationshipOnce he realized that resting on his laurels was no longer an option, that everyone in the nursery home either didn’t care or simply couldn’t remember what he’d made of his life, Martin knew he’d wasted his time, and that if there was any hope left of squeezing in just a little bit of fun before the end, it somehow involved the patting and pinching of the new nurse’s butt.
TAGS: aging, time, butt, dirty old manOpening the jar and running her fingers through the buttons was like running her fingers through time.
TAGS: time, memory, jars, button