Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts

Monday, October 5, 2015

Beginning of Wisdom


A wrist-worn clock is a remarkable invention and a marvel of manufacturing. The first common availability of wristwatches appeared about a century ago, when we still moved about the earth under steam power, and we performed calculations on paper using nothing more than a pencil and the mind. 

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Remembering the Future


Remembering calls up our internal record of something now existing only in the past. A memory echoes reality, reverberating forward within our minds.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Fatal Fall

I grew up in a household of mostly boys. Constantly looking for ways to entertain ourselves, we three brothers invented countless curious psychological games. The way the brain works, and how it connects with the real, objective world constituted for us an endless source of fascination.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Waiting...

Waiting is a beautiful thing. However, a time of waiting typically compels us to feel tense, upset, even angry. Despite our common reactions, waiting remains a profoundly lovely and refreshing time.