Tag: time
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Of Motorcyclists, Native American Sayings, and Words that Travel Across Time…
If you want to practice patience, try shooting butterflies. They are nothing, if not elusive. Beautiful and elusive. “If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.” On the way to school one morning this past week our youngest child noticed as a motorcycle moving past our truck and other cars then still and waiting…
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Motion, Identification and The Inertial Frame of Reference…
“Everything moves. Everything …motion is just a manifestation of going from one spot to another spot in space. When we are trying to understand motion all of the things that we measure from have to come from an inertial frame of reference. An inertial frame of reference is a reference frame that is moving at…
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Of Time, Plot and Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity…
When we think about time, we automatically link it with motion. The most constant things in human history have been the motions of the objects in the universe. So we first figured out how to measure time by figuring how long it took for the various astronomical motions in our solar system. If you move…
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Protected: Time, Hope and Where Our Hearts Dwell…
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Of Dark Places, Irrevocable Decisions, and Transubstantiation…
The pull to reach the summit of action in a novel or story requires the writer to look within. More than that we must reach down into those dark places where fears and hidden joys lurk. It is here when connecting with our those aspects of life that frighten us we uncover the yearnings and…
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perspective….
it’s 18 minutes after midnight. the kids are in bed. my adolescent has completed 2.5 days of the new year. my 5th grader has their first day tomorrow. it’s a half day with no aftercare; pick-up is at noon. then my high schooler gets out at 2pm. we have lunch. tomorrow is my last day,…