Since exactly four years I have a lot of time on my hands. This 1st of February four years ago we found a special care home for our multiple handicapped daughter. She is now 21 years of age. Her body functions as a body of a 7 month old baby and

  My artist husband and I share studio space, but have a “no-talking” rule during the day so that we can each concentrate. At 5 PM we stop for Happy Hour. In the summer we go to our porch or patio with a glass of wine and enjoy watching the

  Time is sometimes cruel. While making this quilt I tripped over some uneven footpath and broke my ankle and wrist. Luckily I had finished (I thought) this quilt as I was about to leave for a trip to Japan. So now I had more time to finish the quilt but not

I looked up some quotes about time.  A few resonated with my thoughts about the subject.    “How did it get so late so soon?”  ― Dr. Seuss   We never seem to have enough of it.  It flies by so quickly.  Maybe we have plenty of time, but too much

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.