There are those people who seem to have no concept of time, and others, like me, who are overly aware of it. Whether we are sensitive to time or not, it is deeply ingrained into our language and reminders of it surround us.
Whether it’s time to get up, time for dinner, or show-time, it seems we are always running out of time.
We are constantly making time or need more time. On rare occasions we even have time, but mostly we feel like slaves to time.
It is said that time heals all wounds. Whether that’s true or not, there are days when time seems to standstill and other days when time flies.
Right now, I admit I’m just wasting time and it’s time for me to go.
This post was inspired by Dan Antion at No Facilities and is included as part of Thursday Doors, a weekly photo feature hosted by Norm Frampton at Norm 2.0.
I was able to make quite a big change in my life once by looking at my lovely Mama (maternal grandmother) and thinking “life is not short, it is long and I don’t want to live like this for the rest of it”.
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That sounds like an interesting story. Have you written about it?
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Mam, I really liked your time concept. Honestly , we cant stop time . Everymoment its running, no matter what we do. We can just start loving ,enjoying it more and treating like a non-renewable resource.
I wrote this a few days ago.Please give it a look too 🙂
http://fireinyoursoul.in/2017/02/18/how-to-stop-time-from-running/
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So true – time is a non-renewal resource.
… and some of us use that resource better than others 🙂
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How is possible to be sensitive to time?
You can be aware of the CLOCK moving, but not aware of TIME passing.. What do you think Joanne?
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Ouch! A philosophical question to make my head hurt 🙂
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No joanne don’t worry, it don’t hurt, is just a legend
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Ps: thank you for the answer
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I enjoyed this post.
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Thank you 🙂
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Glad I took time to look at your clock pics – they are delightful!
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thank you 🙂
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I love your collection of clock towers. Time does have a way of ticking forward, whether we want it to or not! 🙂
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That’s the truth!!
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Well Joanne, this time you’ve done it! You just posted a timeless blog on Norm’s TD.
Ever hear of the expression, “Hawaiian Time”? In Hawaii, we are always late (happened to me when missing the deadline to upload my post on Norm’s TD this week so only my followers will see it); since I now live on the mainland I try to avoid my Hawaiian Time heritage but sometimes not.
Thought your post was awesome this week and wanted to attach an appropriate photo I took in Shanghai last year but I can’t upload images so I’m attaching my Flickr link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/138993329@N02/31386398163/in/album-72157671692401691/
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omg – I love them!! Now, I would have been tempted to buy one – partly the dark versions on the right 🙂
… and yes, we experienced Hawaiian Time. It doesn’t take long to slide into that groove when you’re there 🙂
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I really like that last clock. It did deserve to be included!
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Isn’t it just the cutest? … even without a door 😉
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Great timing. 🙂 I almost feel as if the blog world has been operating on its own time while I’ve been off doing other things. I’d swear I’d only been gone a few days but WP insisted it had been more than a month.
I love that last clock tower. It’s a beauty. 🙂
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It’s sad when the real world starts to interfere with our virtual world 😉
On the other hand, it seems that I’ve had nothing but time on my hands for the past little while.
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Too much or never enough no happy in between! Great post Joanne. I marvel at younger people who don’t wear watches. I know they have phones but not having a watch, how do they cope?
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… but they look at their phones like we do our watches.
For years I never wore a watch at work. I became very good at reading other people’s arms 😉
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Through the portal of time we must allow your cute, black and white Toronto clock, Joanne.
In your Prague photo, the arches are pretty with a fancy door to the balcony featured.
That mint green clock looks like jade with a beautiful antique window, with 14 sides to it, on the next church section. The two styles compliment each other.
I am impressed with how many “times” you featured clocks! Let’s hope time is carefully measured to lengthen when we need to linger and savour moments. Then, may it hurry along only during moments of anguish or pain towards quick recovery in healing. 🙂
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I do like clocks and discovered I have a LOT of photos of clocks. I really like your sentiment about hoping “time is carefully measured to lengthen when we need to linger and savour moments”. That is a lovely wish to give anyone 🙂
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It’s about time…I love it. Clever, eloquent and catchy. Terrific post!
Peta
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Thanks 🙂
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Glad you found the time to share your words and photos 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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I really do love that first door. 🙂 I must admit I don’t pay a lot of attention to time unless I’m scheduled to do something, and I sure don’t set an alarm because I haven’t slept past 6 a.m. in so long I can’t remember. 🙂
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I haven’t yet reached that stage where I am not aware of the time. Maybe I never will
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Well, I just took a little time to enjoy this post! Very clever. I love the clock towers too. I remember hearing a local church bell mark the hours when I was a kid. I miss that sound. 🙂
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I had fun writing it. Call it inspiration in the shower 🙂
I have over a hundred photos of clocks … apparently I really like them too 😉
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That is a cute clocktower! I like the castle in Krakow as well!
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I’ve been itching to use that photo of the little clock tower for a while. It’s sooo cute 🙂
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I have always been ahead, lately, I am behind. Time is flying and it’s not flying in my direction. I love the clock tower and I LOVE Prague. Best restaurants ever!
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Lately, I just feel like I’ve been stuck in a holding pattern … waiting to get an ok on my shoulder (hopefully next week), and the cold weather is oppressive. Hopefully the entire month isn’t going to be slo-mo like this.
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I forgot all about your shoulder. I thought you were up and running like a weasel by now.
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Oh – I’m up and running alright … but anything that requires the use of my left shoulder is still verboten. Fingers crossed for next week.
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Yes, good photos here Joanne. I saw in a documentary once that munks invented the clock, as a tool to keep track of when they should pray.
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Interesting. Another thing I didn’t know 🙂
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love everything about this post. glad I took the time to read it!
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thanks! 🙂
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This is so funny you mention about how overly aware of time you are. I always (always!) wore a watch to work. Without fail. And my kids always wondered, WHY? They had their cellphones to tell them what time it was. After I was out of work last year for so long, I never wore a watch. No need. When I did go back, I said heck with the watch–I have my cellphone to tell me what time it is. Can you say ‘Hello bracelets?’ All my vintage bracelets in place of my watch. What took me so long?? 😀
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I have MANY watches and I think of them more as jewellry than time pieces 🙂
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I had a conversation with an uncle a while back about how watches would be extinct eventually. He was surprised that I owned, let alone still wore one (and not even one of those fancy smart watches either!)
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The younger generation are rediscovering watches – particularly ‘retro’ designs. My husband was horrified when my youngest son started sporting a watch in a style that my husband thought his grandfather might wear. Everything old becomes new again 🙂
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They are way too smart for me! I just want to knw the time, for gosh sakes! 😀
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Same here!
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Very nice, Joanne. I’m giving you 1,000 bonus points for your unique take on the door challenge.
As for time, I either need more of it or a three-day weekend.
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Oooo – my first set of bonus points!! I like the way this new year has started 🙂
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What a cool take on the challenge Joanne. I’ve just been tidying my office bookshelf (about time) and found, next to each other — ‘A Brief History of Time’, ‘The Anthropology of Time’ and ‘A Geography of Time.’ Guess now I’ll spend some time flipping through them and some more wondering why I bought them in the first place. Thanks for providing an excuse to read rather than tidy 🙂
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LOL – so, I’m not the only one who later ponders a purchase and wonders what I was thinking at the time! 🙂
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Absolutely not. Books are my weakness, and while I’ve managed to curb my buying impulse a bit, I do find the oddest tomes on my shelves sometimes.
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Nice post for my Friday morning at work – no I should not be peeking at this. I’ll continue for the time being, then back to the no air conditioning grind. It’s going to be 33° today and the air con is having it’s annual service grrr. Love the clocks and cold. Michael
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I’ll send some cold waves your way.
It’s currently -8C and the windchill is about -18C.
Gilles just tried to convince me to go for a walk together. I laughed.
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Brrrr. No too cold for me. Gilles is quite the comedian
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Sadly he was being serious.
I noticed he didn’t go out by himself though 😉
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And sometimes we need a Time Out!
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I’m a good girl. I don’t need time outs 😉
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What a great collection of clocks and doors! I guess back-in-the-day people didn’t have wrist watches, and they certainty didn’t have all the electronic gadgets we now have to tell us what time it is. I don’t imagine many modern buildings have clocks incorporated into their facades. They are all beautiful, but I especially like the one on the castle in Krakow.
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I’m a huge fan of buildings with clocks on them. I think you’re right … I can’t say I’ve seen a new construction with a clock face. If anything, it’s a billboard with a digital clock … ugh!
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Doors and clock… and t.i.m.e. is on my mind. Ha ha. Me too, the Rolling Stones won’t shut UP.
Wonderful post. Fabulous pictures, Joanne. 🙂
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Thanks Tess. I was happy to share the earworm 🙂
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You are welcome. 😀 😀 😀 Can you take back the earworm now?
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Noooo!
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Awesome doors and CLOCKS and thanks for the shout, Joanne. I like all the ways you talked about time. I have a conference call in a few minutes, so I am clearly wasting time while I wait for others to get on the call. I like the first photo the best but I really like the last clock too.
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Thanks Dan for the inspiration this morning. I’ve managed to kill the entire morning because of it 😉
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Ha ha – now you can’t blame me for that. Well, you can if you want to.
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Clever post Joanne. I’m very aware of time and always seem to be running out of it. My calendar seems to flip at a fast forward pace. 🙂
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Thanks Sue. This is one of those days I think of as a bonus day. I was supposed to be out all day, but snow squalls have kept me home. I had to fill my time somehow 😉
… and yes, who cranked up the speed on the life treadmill? I wouldn’t mind a slower pace. Time is rushing by too quickly!
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I guess all the more reason we need to treasure every minute. 🙂
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Great collection 🙂 I really love that last clock — it’s so striking, I would never have noticed its doorlessness!
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I was certain it had a door somewhere and surprised to discover only windows … but it is just the cutest little thing 🙂
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Great post and images Joanne 🙂 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt4YeJlAyqY
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A really young Mick Jagger!! … and what’s with Keith Richards chewing gum while singing on stage? The man’s talents know no bounds 😉
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In addition to chewing gum and singing he is apparently immortal. I think he is now the worlds oldest living person 😆
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He’s certainly not a good poster boy for the ‘drugs kill’ message 😉
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Good morning, Joanne. I love both of your photos and words! I this is wasting time, please waste more… for us! 😉
Have a great day.
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I’m thinking that this day is more of a ‘found’ day. I was supposed to go spend the day with my sister about 90 minutes from here, but snow squalls have me grounded at home. Now I feel I can spend the day anyway I like and not feel guilty that I’m wasting time 😉
Hope you have a great day too … preferably without the snow squalls 🙂
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It’s sunny. Looks great from inside of the house, but wind chill -15 degree. I rather have snow than cold 😉
Take care.
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Stay warm, Helen. There’s still lots of winter ahead!
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I love the photos. Such beautiful architecture. Here’s a little riddle for which I have no answer: Time is eternal. So how is it possible to waste time?
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How about – time may be eternal, but our human vessels are not.
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Now that’s more like the agnostic spirit. 🙂
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Once again, I love your “spin” on the Thursday Door Challenge. I am watching and learning!
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I think my muse got tired of my whining and tossed several ideas my way. This one stuck 🙂
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Did you
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any time phrases? On reflection maybe not. Delightful post Joanne backing up my recent observation 🙂
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There are soooo many expressions referring to time – quality time, down time, over time … time to move on …
I try to quit while I’m still ahead 😉
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I was just trying (and failing) to ’emit’ a smarty pants vibe with an anagram type quip. Sorry, back to the naughty step of several weeks ago… 🙂
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Good grief … I have my head so far up the time tunnel, I don’t recognize when you’re being a smarty pants 😉
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My fault, need to be more smart less pants 🙂
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NOOOOO! Don’t change!!
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Are we still on the pants subject?
While ever you’re happy to tolerate my attempts at humour without the need for injunctions/banning orders, I’m happy to keep making a twit of myself. 🙂
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We all do from time to time 🙂
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Wonderful take on this challenge. I find clocks faces fascinating, and when they’re above a door all the better.
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I realized that I have well over a 100 photos of clocks. I think I might have a slight obsession 😉
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Haha… maybe you need to host a clock challenge? My bench challenge helped me to post a lot of my bench collection. Not sure I have that many clocks, though I am guessing there will be a few clock towers!
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Such beautiful clock towers and doors too! It was really crowded at the fire station that day!
This was a fun post…definitely not a waste of time!
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That fire station is located on the grounds where the Canadian National Exhibition is held every summer in Toronto. In my 30+ years living in Toronto, I’ve only been to the CNE twice – including that day this past summer. Sad, isn’t it?
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No, seems normal to me. I’ve only been to the Winchester Mystery House 3 times in the 40+ yrs I’ve lived in San Jose. I lived right around the corner from it for 4 yrs. and within 2 miles of it for 35+ years!
Being a tourist in your own home town isn’t something we do often. 🙂
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Sad, but true. I’ve been trying to correct that.
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Well done Joanne, and now I will have that Rolling Stones song stuck in my head all day: “Tiiiiii-iiiiii-iiiiii-iiime, is on my siiiide…yes, it is!”
Thanks for that 😉
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I was singing that song too while reading the post!
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mwahahahaha! My evil plan has worked then! 😀
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Glad I could help. I thought I would share my ear-worm this morning 😉
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Nicely done! There’s something about clocks that make them look so regal.
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I love clocks and watches (I have several). I give big points to any building that has a clock on it 🙂
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Yup, time is today a subject for everyone as it seems to just slip by though I think we need to be disciplined and leave our electronic devices on their own and spend some quality time with ourselves…we have to make time. (Suzanne)
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I couldn’t agree more Suzanne!! 🙂
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Your lovely photos are never a waste of time! Always enjoy a look!
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Thanks Lynn 🙂
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I agree! 🙂
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Thank you! Then it means I’m successfully weeding out the really bad ones 🙂
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🙂
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