The futility of racing against time and the wisdom of a poet, philospher, essayist and novelist on the matter.
Forever Racing Against Time
June 22nd, 2024 Comments Off on Forever Racing Against Time
Tags: Carl Sandburg · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · racing against time · Ralph Waldo Emerson · time
Time to Get Back to Keeping Time Again
November 20th, 2021 Comments Off on Time to Get Back to Keeping Time Again
Asserting that it is time to start living again after COVID restrictions put life on hold.
Tags: Albert Einstein · Benjamin Franklin · COVID-19 · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · time · time is a flowing river
Off the Clock, But Forever on Time
August 4th, 2019 Comments Off on Off the Clock, But Forever on Time
Reflecting once again on the nature of time and how we each experience it.
Tags: Christopher Morley · clock · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · time
Confessions of a Hard-Core Clock Watcher
March 30th, 2019 Comments Off on Confessions of a Hard-Core Clock Watcher
A brief philosophical meander on the nature of time aided by Einstein and Thoreau.
Tags: Einstein · Henry David Thoreau · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · theory of relativity · time
When I Grow Old and Wear the Bottom of My Trousers Rolled: Small Gemstones
June 10th, 2017 Comments Off on When I Grow Old and Wear the Bottom of My Trousers Rolled: Small Gemstones
Growing old gracefully by opting out of the endless race with time.
Tags: Callico Pennant · Great Spangled Fritillary · Indigo Bunting · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · T.S. Eliot · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock · time
Scratching the Itch of Time: An Existential Feather in the Wind
November 7th, 2015 Comments Off on Scratching the Itch of Time: An Existential Feather in the Wind
Grapping with the elusive quality of time and arriving at the conclusion that it can only be understood through metaphor.
Tags: calendar · Carl Sandberg · Charles Dickens · eternalism · feather in the wind · growing past theory · Henry David Thoreau · hourglass · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Nathaneil Hawthorne · presentism · sun dial · time · water clock
Random Act of Metaphor: Wind Turbine Alley
September 7th, 2014 Comments Off on Random Act of Metaphor: Wind Turbine Alley
Finding a role model for my life in the most unusual of places.
Tags: Highway 401 · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · southwestern ontario · time · wind turbines
Clocks Ticking – Wheels Spinning – Memory Slipping
October 14th, 2012 Comments Off on Clocks Ticking – Wheels Spinning – Memory Slipping
My hypothesis on how and why we experience the concept of time differently in the 21st century – and what it does to our over taxed memory.
Tags: memory · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · pace of life · time · Ziggy
Time Enough, But None to Spare
September 2nd, 2012 Comments Off on Time Enough, But None to Spare
We are slaves of the clock. But it need not be that way if we see time as a metaphor.
Tags: clocks · Harvey MacKay · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Saint Augustine · time · William Faulkner · William Penn
Autumn Gold, Fire Alarms and Pillars That Endure
October 14th, 2011 Comments Off on Autumn Gold, Fire Alarms and Pillars That Endure
Learning to ride the waves of life and ground myself in those things that withstand the test of time.
Tags: autumn · fate · fire alarm · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · time