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26 Sep 2010

Weekly Roundup: Time and Space

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Time, space, and how we inhabit the two have been a bit on my mind lately.

Image: Brisbane Falling via Flickr, CC 2.0

Not that they’re normally too far from it – because everything we do is a function of time and space, isn’t it? – but they’ve been slightly more on my mind lately.

To that end, here are seven posts for you to read/listen to/watch crossing the gamut of time and space that you might enjoy… or, at the least, find thought-provoking.

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By Shonali Burke|Sep 26, 2010|Categories: Around the Web|Tags: creativity, cultures, space, time|2 Comments

25 Sep 2010

When Clocks And Calendars Collide

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My body clock jogs me awake.

The calendar turns to another day.

Fall sets in in the Western Hemisphere

telling me where and when I am.

My brain obediently responds,

yet my essence is tugged by the magnet of memory.

Genes tussle with mind

over

where I am

where I was

where I should be

where I cannot be.

Wavering temperatures, timidly-coppering leaves, are the here and now.

Monsoon relief and the onset of the festival season are the there and then.

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By Shonali Burke|Sep 25, 2010|Categories: Personal|Tags: calendar, clock, memories, nostalgia|5 Comments

24 Sep 2010

Sense Is Lost On Squirrels

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We’ve talked quite a bit about the need for constantly educating ourselves and our peers recently, haven’t we?

Reminds me of a conversation I had with Back Yard Squirrel the other day.

Image: Les Howard via Flickr, CC 2.0

“So what do you do?” he asked, while trying to reach – upside-down – into the bird feeder.

(Unsuccessfully, I might add.)

“I’m a PR agency of one,” I answered, wondering if a neatly-aimed acorn might knock him off his perch.

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