Quote of the Week - Oliva

"Time is an Invention.Waiting for my train at the platform...it says it will be here in 4 minutes...it's been over 12' and still waiting...no one seems to care but...I do. I want to dissect time and eat it." 

~ Maximiliano Oliva 

I love this.  Thanks Maxi for letting me use it!  The idea that time is an invention is such a big and great one, but it's of no use at all until you feel it for yourself.  "I want to dissect time and eat it," is one of the most poetic things I've read in a long time.

Yay for another week of real quotes by real live people!



So....here's a writing prompt for your day:

What does time taste like?

What tools would you need to dissect it and how would you go about it?

Time time time

Let's pretend this is a Tumblr.  Just for today.

Time keeps coming up

Various conversations.

Various forms.

How differently we all need it - use it - understand it.

How we estimate it - or don't.

How it passes.  How it passes

Are You Wasting Your Time?

This blog by Laurie Gerber on The Daily Love is totally worth reposting.

I am sporadically guilty of #3, #4, and even, occasionally, #5.  (It's only a list of 5, so that's not really so good, is it?)

Many people close to me are plagued by several of these, as well - I can see it dragging their days down.  (It's not always so easy to see when you're doing it to yourself.)

Fess up and change up.

Quote of the Week - Borges

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. "

- Jorge Luis Borges (via Goodreads)

This quote reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith - the one where SPOILERS he  wants to be alone so he can read and when he is finally the last man on the planet, alone with his books, he breaks his glasses....I would like to think there will be infinite time to read some day.  There's no horror movie scarier to me than the end of this episode.  I think it's reasonable to think that Serling was reading Borges, too, so there might be some actual connection.



DON'T WATCH THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THE END!



And if you're still following my train of  thought, here's another meditation on time: