Pockets of Time ©Colleen Kole 2019  30 “x 40”    When I updated my phone, my daughter pointed out I could track my online usage. Yes, she was pointing out to me I was procrastinating at getting my studio work done- on a really regular basis.  After a  few

Time Travel Sitting down with a cup of hot Lemon Zinger tea to write this.  I love to read.  As a child, I spent many happy hours browsing through the public library in the summertime.     I recently had to sit for a couple of hours at an urgent

 So many ways to measure time, to envision time, to mark time–by seconds, by minutes, hours, days, months, years. I wondered, recently, how many days I have been alive so far. Turns out more than 26,000, only a few of which I remember as distinct, given days. Some were significant

  It doesn’t matter how hard I try, I just can’t make time. It is a finite resource. And one that I continue to abuse – if taking on too much, if over-committing, if thinking I’ll find the time were a crime I would be a serial offender.   A

  All living organisms, be it plants or animals, share in their genes the same structure that helps them adapt to the time of day. We all have “time” embedded on a molecular level of every cell. We carry our own time within us. The biological clock in our bodies

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

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

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

  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