. . . . . . . . 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
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
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