Comments on: Take your time http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/take-your-time/ wonderings on our weird world, from synapses to Saturn Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lisa Damian http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/take-your-time/#comment-103 Lisa Damian Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:37:23 +0000 http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-103 I mentioned your blog at the Damian Daily, and tagged you for a frivilous but fun little blog game that I thought a playful imp like yourself might enjoy: http://damiandaily.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/blog-tag/ I mentioned your blog at the Damian Daily, and tagged you for a frivilous but fun little blog game that I thought a playful imp like yourself might enjoy:
http://damiandaily.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/blog-tag/

]]> By: trickylittleimp http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/take-your-time/#comment-105 trickylittleimp Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:00:15 +0000 http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-105 Hello, Drake - that's lots to make the mind swirl. Thanks for that. You're right about accretion and contemplation (con-templ-ation: did you use that deliberately? Etymologically, the 'templ' refers to temples for considering the augurs, but I want there to be a tempus/time pun). I've really had to think about 'taking time out' to contemplate. Can we "take time out", if it is always with us, we are always part of it / it of us? Blimey, the sticky language/culture web this is......Separating ourselves from others' rhythms, though - absolutely right. The fine Mr Cope is right - pixies, go see & then use this massive public holiday to do it: (http://www.headheritage.co.uk/addressdrudion/106/2008/) And last (that's so wrong in this context): circularity & the stalactite: very, very Easter-spirited (and a great name for a band...) Off to pace my rhythm now...TLI Hello, Drake – that’s lots to make the mind swirl. Thanks for that.

You’re right about accretion and contemplation (con-templ-ation: did you use that deliberately? Etymologically, the ‘templ’ refers to temples for considering the augurs, but I want there to be a tempus/time pun). I’ve really had to think about ‘taking time out’ to contemplate. Can we “take time out”, if it is always with us, we are always part of it / it of us? Blimey, the sticky language/culture web this is……Separating ourselves from others’ rhythms, though – absolutely right.

The fine Mr Cope is right – pixies, go see & then use this massive public holiday to do it: (http://www.headheritage.co.uk/addressdrudion/106/2008/)

And last (that’s so wrong in this context): circularity & the stalactite: very, very Easter-spirited (and a great name for a band…) Off to pace my rhythm now…TLI

]]> By: drake http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/take-your-time/#comment-102 drake Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:07:05 +0000 http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-102 Hi TLI, Perhaps your most interesting post yet. Accretion is a great word, although taking time out to watch it happening can get in the way of staying on the ride and keeping up with the winged chariot. However taking time out for contemplation - separating yourself from other people's rhythms - is enhancing for the spirit and can throw up ideas you never thought you could produce. Have a look at Julian Cope's March Druidion address for his take on this. Getting back to your slowly lengthening stalactite have your thought how its accretion is the result of the erosion of the river bed at an earlier moment in time and that eventually the gathering crystals will return to the flowing water; the rigid cone of calcite in fact a freeze frame of water feeling gravity's pull. Happy Eostre Imp. Hi TLI,
Perhaps your most interesting post yet. Accretion is a great word, although taking time out to watch it happening can get in the way of staying on the ride and keeping up with the winged chariot. However taking time out for contemplation – separating yourself from other people’s rhythms – is enhancing for the spirit and can throw up ideas you never thought you could produce. Have a look at Julian Cope’s March Druidion address for his take on this.

Getting back to your slowly lengthening stalactite have your thought how its accretion is the result of the erosion of the river bed at an earlier moment in time and that eventually the gathering crystals will return to the flowing water; the rigid cone of calcite in fact a freeze frame of water feeling gravity’s pull.

Happy Eostre Imp.

]]> By: Lisa Damian http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/take-your-time/#comment-96 Lisa Damian Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:37:20 +0000 http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-96 I love the concept of time being only "now." HarperCollins sent me a Terry Pratchett book this week to review, "Johnny and the Bomb." It's a book geared towards youth, and it features a group of accidental time-travelling teenagers. Only one of them has the power to yank the whole gang through "the the trousers of time" because he understands that time only exists in our minds. In the typical spirit of Pratchett, he takes an intriguing concept and sprinkles it with a bit of his uniquely lopsided humor. I'll be posting a book review soon on my Damian Daily blog. I love the concept of time being only “now.” HarperCollins sent me a Terry Pratchett book this week to review, “Johnny and the Bomb.” It’s a book geared towards youth, and it features a group of accidental time-travelling teenagers. Only one of them has the power to yank the whole gang through “the the trousers of time” because he understands that time only exists in our minds. In the typical spirit of Pratchett, he takes an intriguing concept and sprinkles it with a bit of his uniquely lopsided humor. I’ll be posting a book review soon on my Damian Daily blog.

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