Wine and time
Having written an entire essay, if not a thesis, on this vital and universal issue, I am always in search...
Time as a hovering hawk
I am fascinated by perspectives of time, and here it’s memorably described as a rough-legged hawk, or, when it implodes,...
Of long and short time
While I have seen many comments on the elasticity of experienced time, this is the first one...
Time as landscape
How many of us live day to day doling out time fretfully! I liked this alternative, easy, generous, striding engagement...
Of time and tenses I
A fascinating insight into how we fold our perceptions of time into language, or language influences such perceptions. It made...
Poetry as connector
Since good poetry (good writing, for that matter) transcends time, I liked this phrase of Molly Peacock, a Canadian poet,...
Slaves to the sun?
While for the most part these twin sisters are nothing short of bonkers, I liked when one of them questioned...
Gladness and despair
A finely phrased evocation of the twin elements of human experience of time, every new morning or moment heralding good...
New-peeled light
Like a fresh, dazzling morning after a long night, a new lease of life, an awakening … I like this...
Of time and tenses II
Another angle on language and how it shapes or at least influences our perception of time. Here Adam Nicolson discusses...
Man in a hurry
Jesus lays out a few ground rules to Judas whom, it seems, could have done with a dose of
Like drops of scalding water
Curious to use 'scalding', suggesting she was happy to have the present fall away from her, that in some respect...
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