When thinking about the concept of time one quickly come to think of clocks. And since I am Dutch I want to introduce you to a Dutch view on time and clocks.    Dutch artist Maarten Baas made a beautiful series of clocks. For our national airport Schiphol, he made a clock in which

It seems fitting to me that we are pondering “Time” just now as we move from one year to the next. I looked in the mirror on the first day of 2019 and thought, “this is my seventy second New Year’s Day,” and I could see, in my well-worn face

“Time” also passed at this moment of writing this sentence. Time can be measured but can not be seen. In other words, this means that time can be measured using clock or other measuring instrument, but can not be seen because it does not have any concrete shape.    

    I was scheduled to write a blog post for this group on December 25th. It didn’t happen. Why? Because I ran out of time.   I am always running out of time. What is up with that?    I rarely waste time. I can tell you what I

    We constantly use a multitude of clocks to know exactly what time of the day it is. The face of a clock is the most common design to visualize time. We are used to measure time with the help of these clocks. But each of us has in

I have been pondering a recent article in the New York Times Magazine (Dec. 2, 2018) entitled The Insect Apocalypse is Here. For various reasons there have been very few scientific studies done over the years on the total biomass of insects. Their general decline (it appears to be worldwide,

According to Wikipedia, “A jökulhlaup (Icelandic pronunciation:  [ˈjœːkʏl̥øip]) (literally “glacial run”) is a type of glacial outburst flood.It is an Icelandic term that has been adopted in glaciological terminology in many languages. It originally referred to the well-known subglacial outburst floods from Vatnajökull, Iceland, which are triggered by geothermal heating and occasionally by a volcanic subglacial eruption, but it is now

  Time is one of the most equitable thing in our life. But it is a bit different in usage depending on national character.   “The National Character Joke of Time” At the meeting Japanese arrive at 1 hour before. British people arrive at 10 minutes before. Americans arrive at exactly time.

      I have lots of time to develop the idea for the next prompt. And I have scribbled down many ideas over the months since being assigned my time to introduce it.  But nothing really jumped out at me  I wanted an idea that could be interpreted in many different ways as

  When we got our prompt “Water” from Sandra my first thoughts were about the oceans. They are in peril right now and so essential for life on earth.  I thought about the floating plastic in our oceans that kills marine wildlife and pollutes the environment of so many species.

We are drinking water every day. Most living things on the earth are difficult to survive without water.  However, the reality is that the industrial activities of humans are causing various kind of pollution. Among them, many people suffer from various diseases due to water pollution. I think this is

  Time Fragments #23 :Beach Daze  30.5″W x 40.5 ” H        The beach and accompanying water whether ocean, lake or pond, are always a part of my summers. And the last two years we have added trips to Florida in the depths of winter doldrums here in cloudy