Johanna's Blog – November 2008 Archive (2)

"Time waits for no man," goes the old saying. Yet when we think of time, we set ourselves in motion, that is to say, we set time into motion; it could be fragmented, nevertheless, it is moving. This is why we often have the impression that time is moving very fast. The more we think about it, the faster it seems to move. This article was begun several minutes ago, which is now the past, you will read it in my future, yet right now, in the present, these words are being written. It is said that… Continue

I have always considered the month of November as Remembrance month. We are reminded to reflect on the past with its success and failures, to remember holy persons both living and dead, and on our own personal projects of the past year. It is a time of inner introspection, and what better moment than when the leaves are falling, a temporal reminder that all things change, that mortality is part of the life process and that immortality belongs only to those persons and things that have passed on… Continue