“I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.” ~Susanna Clarke
Time demands too much of our time. It pretends to be indifferent, yet creates chaos when we ignore it. It demands our attention, yet refuses to sit still. It invades our privacy, and yet keeps to itself.
Only when we dream are we free from time. But the moment we return we discover it has looted our houses and defaced our possessions. It simply cannot be trusted, time. In truth, we’re better off without it. Perhaps that’s why in the end we all say, “So be it, then” and die. Still, until that time when there is no time: What are we to do with time?
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“Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.” ~Dave Barry
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” ~Groucho Marx
“In a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence as a dream.” ~Edgar Allan Poe
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.” ~Ecclesiastes 3:11
“‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
Mitch Teemley 
No time like the present to contemplate our past as strive towards our future.
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Indeed, Pam. Especially with all this (excuse the semi-pun) time on our hands.
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“Hour” sense of humor will keep the good times rolling, Mitch!
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;>)
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As the saying goes: “Only Time Will Tell.”
Indeed.
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Yep.
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I definitely think that’s where we are right now.
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TIME? From few days I was thinking about how time is changing everything around. And today I saw your post. Time is powerful.
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I’m glad I took time to read this. Bravo! 💚
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Thank you, K.L.
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You’re welcome!
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Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.
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I’m a fan of clocks and some of these are absolutely wonderful! Thanks.
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ecclesiates 3:13 i will do all things
through him that strengths thee
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I still don’t understand why you make up Bible verses, Rudy. There is an Ecclesiastes 3:13, but that’s not what it says.
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thought it was in case if it doesn’t have that verse
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My dream would be to do what the Peter Fonda character did in that scene from Easy Rider… as simple as throwing your watch away.
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Helps if you have no job and it’s the late ’60s. ;>)
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😀
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Mitch,
Love it. You know I am doing a time travel series called Chronolocity and your piece is right in track with the warning Levy Roarke receives:
“Manage you time wisely, or it will manage you.”
Your ideas are timeless.
Gary
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Thanks, Gary.
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Great pictures and quotes. I need to read the following quote first thing every morning:
“…All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
Have a good weekend, Mitchell
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You too, William!
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🙂
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As soon as I saw your post, The Chambers Brothers’ “Time Has Come Today” started playing in my head.
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I love this post 😍
Especially
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. And the best time to love is now.”
~Rick Warren
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Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’
Into the future . . .
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Love the quote and the photos! Hope you and yours are well!
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We are, Valerie. Likewise, I hope.
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Yes, just trying to figure how to navigate the reopening safely!
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I know what you mean!
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A fascinating smorgasbord. ‘Time is want we want most, but what we use worst.’ William Penn.
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