TIME FOR YOU
Stage 1
It appears that the more I study time the more complicated it gets.
Looking at the meaning of time can we agree that time is like a continuum where anything that goes through a gradual transition creates a succession from one to another. Then the durations and spaces between motions that occur become measurable.
As my pen moves across the paper, back and forth, time elapses yet something has been created, a thought pattern perhaps, an understanding of life itself, who knows, time will tell?
So if we agree on how time is, or can be defined and measured then an understanding of our own existence grows.
When examining our lives clocks and watches and other devices become obsolete as other defining factors rule our behaviour. Technology, the internet and Television are able to create different ways for us to use our own time in many ways although other time constraints such as the time it takes to get to work for example may remain the same.
If we were to consider an existence where no measuring devices were available, how long would it take before our own measuring methods of time passage become the norm for us to pass on to our children?
When do we get up in the morning? Is this determined by the sun, the weather our health? When shall we plant our crops and where, how do they grow and why? Shall we go to bed when we are tired and rise when the sun appears?
Behaviour when considering all these factors sun, light, dark, water food, illness and age is constant and we must rely on gained knowledge to progress. Time management becomes a handy tool.
How we are brought up and what is learnt from our parents and others will determine our own perceptions of time. These may be altered by the way in which we live our lives. Drugs may slow down or speed up, overestimate or underestimate our sense of time. When we age it is a known perception that an older person can perceive a week as passing in a blink of an eye where a child can remember the same week as lasting for ever. This, although measured in time as being exactly the same can be defined mathematically as a calculation of one’s life lived. Example, one day to an eleven-year-old person would be approximately 1/4,000 of their life, while one day to a 55-year-old would be approximately 1/20,000 of their life.
Now aren’t you glad I told you that?
Simply Salt
‘Simply Salt’ is the first in a series of ‘Creative Surfaces’ workshops from Fibre in-Form allowing you to pick and choose which techniques you would like to explore and take further.
We all know how life can sometimes get in the way of our creative endeavours so these workshops have been designed to enable you to start and finish them at your leisure.
‘Simply Salt’ will take you through the process of creating an amazing surface on a background of Lutradur using gesso, ink, silk paints and salt.
This surface can then be embellished further using machine or hand stitch, beading or other embellishments but is equally decorative enough to use on its own to create vessels, book covers, bags etc.
The workshop includes five chapters with 77 colour illustrations.
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Time to reconsider
When we wake up one morning and take a good look in the mirror we may see someone else looking back at us. Although familiar in appearance, someone we know, there is something wrong.
Time has not been good as it has attacked our very person, played havoc with our well being and run amok amid the bones and sinew.
We take a few moments of time and consider what had happened over the past few years. All that food, the stuff we are always told to keep our distance from yet cannot seem to; call our name as we pass them on the supermarket shelves. Cake calls our name, alcohol whispers in our ear, ready cooked chicken pecks at our hunger. All this and more marks the path that leads us all to the same look in the mirror, the realisation of age. Oh! Woe is me. (And you)
I have heard and not sure of its truth or origin that eating well, (I thought I did that) exercise and living a true and godly existence may even extend one’s life by up to five years.
Then I get to thinking what I could do in five years in my forties and what I can do in five years in my seventies. Yup I am too late; time has passed me by in a blinking of an eye.
But if you are in your forties and are reading this then you may consider using the time now to change your life to an alternative path, one where you really do live for the moment.
If you are in your sixties, do you need to carry on working and if your answer is yes then list down 10 reasons why you must. (Makes very poor reading doesn’t it?)
The simplest of changes to your routine can spark a new beginning making time your friend. Speak to others and find out about them, what do they do, what hobbies have they got. Degzy quote; “an active mind if not accompanied by an active body equals a very clever vegetable.” (Hmm food again)
You know that while I have written this time has passed and I realise it will not come back, however It may have been worthwhile if someone else reading my scrawling takes time to think and make changes to their lives
Time has not been good as it has attacked our very person, played havoc with our well being and run amok amid the bones and sinew.
We take a few moments of time and consider what had happened over the past few years. All that food, the stuff we are always told to keep our distance from yet cannot seem to; call our name as we pass them on the supermarket shelves. Cake calls our name, alcohol whispers in our ear, ready cooked chicken pecks at our hunger. All this and more marks the path that leads us all to the same look in the mirror, the realisation of age. Oh! Woe is me. (And you)
I have heard and not sure of its truth or origin that eating well, (I thought I did that) exercise and living a true and godly existence may even extend one’s life by up to five years.
Then I get to thinking what I could do in five years in my forties and what I can do in five years in my seventies. Yup I am too late; time has passed me by in a blinking of an eye.
But if you are in your forties and are reading this then you may consider using the time now to change your life to an alternative path, one where you really do live for the moment.
If you are in your sixties, do you need to carry on working and if your answer is yes then list down 10 reasons why you must. (Makes very poor reading doesn’t it?)
The simplest of changes to your routine can spark a new beginning making time your friend. Speak to others and find out about them, what do they do, what hobbies have they got. Degzy quote; “an active mind if not accompanied by an active body equals a very clever vegetable.” (Hmm food again)
You know that while I have written this time has passed and I realise it will not come back, however It may have been worthwhile if someone else reading my scrawling takes time to think and make changes to their lives
stitching the textured surface
Now the long awaited book is here and people are able to see the true skills of the two authors, Carol McFee and Lynda Monk. So beautifully set out with clear and concise instructions.
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Debbi Baker, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
"Look what came in the mail today!! I just love a wonderful mixed media book and this one is superb - stunning photography of the samples and such a good balance between close-ups and longer distance shots. It is has just recently been released and is written by the extremely talented duo Lynda Monk and Carol McFee - (in the unlikely event that anyone reading my blog isn't already aware of them!!)."
Feedback
Debbi Baker, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
"Look what came in the mail today!! I just love a wonderful mixed media book and this one is superb - stunning photography of the samples and such a good balance between close-ups and longer distance shots. It is has just recently been released and is written by the extremely talented duo Lynda Monk and Carol McFee - (in the unlikely event that anyone reading my blog isn't already aware of them!!)."
Stitching the textured surface
Link to the forthcoming book by Lynda Monk & Carol McFee where you can pre order and have the authors sign your copy
Another Degzoid from Degzy
Has anyone studied an ant colony? The communication and work ethic of an ant is undoubtedly staggering.
Yet we do not need nor want to mirror this behaviour choosing instead to look inward and worry how things effect us.
Consider the time wasted in worrying what will happen tomorrow.
Today, here and now is most important. Plan by all means but allow for change.
Has anyone studied an ant colony? The communication and work ethic of an ant is undoubtedly staggering.
Yet we do not need nor want to mirror this behaviour choosing instead to look inward and worry how things effect us.
Consider the time wasted in worrying what will happen tomorrow.
Today, here and now is most important. Plan by all means but allow for change.
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