Posts by Pat:
Can we really “save” time?
We’re not really saving daylight today. We’re just shifting our perception of it.
Time isn’t really a “thing.” It’s a viewpoint, a linear measure of an experience.
It’s recollection of the past, attention in the present, anticipation of the future.
After all, we all know that the time spend in the dentist chair is different than the time we spend having fun!
Has time ever “stood still” for you? How fast did time go when you were taking a timed test?
What do we do to it if we are not saving it? Well, we…
- kill time,
- waste time,
- do time,
- pass time.
And others do that too! So we all get together and come up with agreements on what we experience. We find ways to measure it: clocks, calendars, all that stuff.
Yep, it’s all just a matter of our perspective. After all, consider the turtle…or the hummingbird. The turtle is super slow at everything, from OUR viewpoint. And to us the hummingbird looks like it’s zipping around at a million miles an hour! But to that bird, we look like we’re moving around like molasses.
All of us as humans have the same 24 hours per day, the same 7 days per week, but some folks are really active and productive and some are laid-back, relaxed and seemingly lazy. (think hummingbird or turtle!)
Everyone is marching to their own drummer. It’s like we all have an inner metronome, setting a certain rhythm with each of us. For some it runs faster, for others it runs slower.
What we each choose is our individual choice.
And, yes, we can start to make a shift to our inner rhythm.
After all, it’s all good!
Is one better than the other?
No, because it’s all a choice!
We need only to remember that life is a gift and time is how we choose to experience it.
Choose wisely!
Banish these 3 phrases!
Many of us don’t understand that what we say matters. We have the power to create our world with our words. And we may not know it, but some words can hold us back from the life we desire. Here are three to consider: There are indeed many things we cannot do. We can’t be […]
It’s okay to be a hobbit!
When wizard Gandalf presents Bilbo Baggins as the last member of the dwarf company in Tolkein’s story, he faces resistance because the dwarves don’t think Bilbo’s up to the task. Neither does Bilbo! After all, he can’t fight. He can’t fend for himself in the wild. Gandalf settles the debate by pointing out one quality: […]
It’s expensive to be poor
It’s probably because I’m working on my tax returns that I’m more sensitive to the contrast between expensive and cheap, between well off and poor. And I have to admit that I feel fortunate that I haven’t really had to struggle with poverty. But my awareness of the extreme differences in our society has been […]
from a kid’s view…
In honor of this month’s focus on ‘meaningful’ relationships, this post shares some fun statements youngsters have made about love and marriage! HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY? You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should […]
Are you wintering?
Here’s a thought-provoking word: wintering. I enjoyed reflecting on Katherine May’s words in my recently-read Wintering: the Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. She describes it as those moments when life turns cold through crisis or loss and we find ourselves living at a different, slower pace. Wintering is a process by which […]
Let Go?!
There’s many a lesson I’m still learning, and this is one of them! LETTING GO(D) doesn’t mean not caring, it means not taking responsibility for someone else. LETTING GO(D) doesn’t mean cutting myself off from others, it means realizing that I can’t control others. LETTING GO(D) doesn’t mean caring for, it means caring about. LETTING […]
Skating on thin ice?
When I’m experimenting with something new, I’m often a bit tentative, not sure that what I’m messing around with is solid enough to hold the full weight of my being. In times like these, I picture myself standing on the edge of a frozen body of water, asking “Is this ice thick enough to hold […]
This crazy language of ours
Ah, the delightful quirks of the English language-a language with so many rules and far too many exceptions. But English was invented by people, not computers. It reflects the creativity of the human race which, of course, is not a race at all. After all, there is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger, […]
a different serenity prayer!
We all may know the basic Serenity Prayer, but have you see some of the tweaked ones? Here are some…and you may know of others! My favorite one (which I couldn’t find an image for) is… “God, grant me the serenity to accept there are things I’ve no time to read, time to read the […]