This thing called time: Tokyo time

Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time.  A lot. In my last two posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper and Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time. In the same [...]

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This thing called time part 2

Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time.  A lot. In my last post I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper. Accompanying Jay’s article is a bold headline that reads “How to Expand Time”.  [...]

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This thing called time

Coming back from working in Africa for a month I’ve been thinking about time a lot. A lot. Time flowed thicker there.  I was swept up in its meandering current.  I delighted in its unpredictability. Slipping back into the stream at home in Canada I observe myself getting annoyed if someone takes a few extra [...]

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Polite notice: am naked and waiting

No, this isn’t a porn email, rather some overall musings on Kenya and Uganda. You often see public notices here start with ‘Polite notice….’ as in ‘polite notice; please check out by 10 am’. I like that, it’s poetic. Time runs thicker here. Am measuring time not in seconds or minutes but rather in hours [...]

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