Passage of Time. . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . time flies, time heals, there's never enough of it, and it passes far too quickly. 

Recent brief stop at IKEA during a trip to Charlotte, NC was just to look around.

 I like to see what's new in the modern design world, find perhaps a few items to put

 away for gifts later - I like their kitchen/storage items - and grab a couple of 
bars of dark chocolate (IKEA's is good, inexpensive, and hopefully good for 

you . . . . . in small doses).

Made time for all that and discovered this, the modern take on the hourglass.

It came in two sizes with different color sand - I chose the larger

with 'sand' more like very minute creamy colored pearls, fascinating as they pour

steadily, silently, calmly through the neck.

Sometimes one just needs to sit, clear one's mind and let time take its time.

How much precious time passes as the sand trickles?

3 minutes & 8 seconds.

An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, sand clock or egg timer) is a device

 used to measure the passage of time. It comprises two glass bulbs connected vertically 

by a narrow neck that allows a regulated trickle of material (historically sand) from

 the upper bulb to the lower one. 

Factors affecting the time it measured include sand quantity, sand coarseness,

 bulb size, and neck width. 

Hourglasses may be reused indefinitely by inverting the bulbs once the

 upper bulb is empty. Depictions of hourglasses in art survive in large numbers

 from antiquity to the present day, as a symbol for the passage of time. 

These were especially common sculpted as epitaphs on tombstones or other

 monuments, also in the form of the winged hourglass, a literal depiction of the

 well-known Latin epitaph tempus fugit ("time flies").        

~  via Wikipedia  ~

"If I could save time in a bottle. . . . ."

Jim Croce ~ 1973