What is Time? Place?

     "In the morning I walked down the Boulevard to the Rue Soufflot for coffee and brioche. It was a fine morning. The horse-chesnut trees in the Luxembourg gardens were in bloom. There was the pleasant early-morning feeling of a hot day. I read the papers with the coffee and then smoked a cigarette."

     It's miraculously disorienting to peer through Hemingway's mind's eye, far removed in time & place, via our son's book, stamped on the inside first page with: "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach Whitman Foundation, Kilometer Zero Paris."

     
 

Hemingway at the Henry House, Halifax

Time Also Changes Over Time

     "... the past is now barely present in my thoughts. I believe the main reason for that is children, since life with them in the here and now occupies all the space. They even squeeze out the most recent past: ask me what I did three days ago and I can't remember. Ask me what Vanja was like two years ago, Heidi two months ago, John two weeks ago, and I can't remember. A lot happens in our little everyday life, but it always happens within the same routine, and more than anything else it has changed my perspective of time."

       Karl Ove Knausgaard "A Death in the Family - My Struggle: Book 1" Vintage Books, London, 2014, p32.

Time - Who's Managing Who?

     If “time creates relationship” (anon), then what are we unwittingly creating with our frantic busyness - at work & otherwise?

     "Take the time to reconnect with what healthcare is for you and what it could be…."  

       The 1st International Congress on Whole Person Care  will be held at McGill University, in beautiful, vibrant Montreal - October 17-20, 2013.    Register now: www.wpc2013.ca