Tag: Clock

The Clock Watcher

Every morning I walk from my house to the village to buy bread. It’s become a habit more than a necessity, as I rarely get through a whole loaf in a day. Leaving me at the end of the week with a tray of stale bread that I give to the birds. Or grind down to make breadcrumbs for schnitzel ...

Slowing Down the Clock: Regaining Our Perception of Time

I’m sitting at my desk at work looking over some papers at around 3:30 PM. As I go through the papers while in a a flow state, I get through a lot of my work with joy. I get through some of those papers and look up at the clock only to realize it’s 7:00 PM. To be frank, it felt only like...

The Clock Watcher

Every morning I walk from my house to the village to buy bread. It’s become a habit more than a necessity, as I rarely get through a whole loaf in a day. Leaving me at the end of the week with a tray of stale bread that I give to the birds. Or grind down to make breadcrumbs for schnitzel ...

The Hourly Spectacle at Prague’s Astronomical Clock

The pictures show people looking at Orloj, Prague’s Astronomical Clock, watching the Walk of the Apostles, the clock’s hourly show. Prague is one of Europe’s top five most visited cities. The clock’s little show is one of the city’s top sights. The W...

5 Weeks: The Clock is Ticking

Unfortunately, we’re generally not wired to follow up on vague ideas in the long-term, particularly when they have no specific end date. And so, try as we might, we still lose focus. We still fall back into old habits. Which is why I made that strange statement at the beginning o...