I have been having difficulty loading images into my blog.  At the moment, my life seems to be about coming to terms with the passage of time.  So maybe it is appropriate to paste in images of the January and February calendars.  They represent a take on the first one sixth of the year 2013.

Catacombae

Today I was looking at the January Smithsonian and was interested in their special edition with a number of articles about time, all written by very smart people.  So I made a collage for my journal.  I inserted the image of the journal page but it didn't really turn out the way I wanted it.  So I have much to learn about the art of blogging.  Maybe I'll go to the library tomorrow where there's a faster internet signal.

  
February 2, 2013

 I wanted to use some of the Mussorgsky work to go with the idea of trying to get a handle on time.  I could not load them into the blog page though I had no trouble loading in the icicles picture.

Catacombae   “The creative spirit of the dead Hartmann leads me to the skulls, calls me close to them, and the skulls glow softly from within.”  Mussorgsky

As if...

 

February 2, 2013

I can hardly believe that one twelfth of the year has gone--forever…! In a way we can see it as a joke, but there is something about the passage of time that is totally incomprehensible.  EveryTHING (more or less) is related to ‘place’ but time escapes from any place.  Our perceptions are fixated on the solidity of things in space.  Don’t we have any receptors for time? 

Our languages must be related to this in some way, with our fixation on naming things.  We even name actions in an effort to fix them in space.  Time doesn’t figure.  So do you think that we are physically limited in such a way that however it was that language was invented, humans simply didn’t have the physical capability to acknowledge time when inventing grammar and vocabulary?  This reminds me of the ‘quiff’ thingy and Schroediger’s cat.  Time has been named, measured and talked about, but we still can’t understand what nor why.