Pawprints From Space

I have been reading Benazir Bhutto's last book: Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West It is a thought provoking text made all the more poignant by her assassination. I do think however that her experiences are a bit off the normal track considering who her father was but... it is interesting to gain perspective on Islam from a person of that faith and a woman at that. Anyone who adores history as I do and particularly ancient history knows what a great civilization flurished in the Islamic world at one time. How it continued to flurish when Europe was lost in its Dark Ages. So it is a real tragedy that we now look on an Islamic world caught up in so much internal fighting (think Sunni v. Shia), tangled up in extremist rhetoric and so on. What was once great has been destroyed and the destruction began long ago. The book points to Western colonialism as the cause of the troubles of today's Islamic world. And while there is a lot of merit to that (I could go on forever ab...

So, where does time go? Is it a commodity? We can spend it and waste it as if it were currency. We can put it into something, we can take it to do something. We can watch it or ignore it. On its own it can fly or crawl. Does that mean it is a living thing? Time is an interesting concept. Man made so they tell us and yet we are slaves to our creation. How many clocks are in your home? Your office? How many watches do you own? How many electronic devices also include timekeeping of some sort? And that's another thing "time keeping" we've created devices that "keep" time. Some do it well and down to the last nanosecond, some not so well (sundials for example aren't too precise). Why do we pay so much attention to time? Why is is so important? Why are we so worried about running out of it? i know I am feeling a bit of pressure at this point in my life. Not because I am afraid to die eventually but that I have SO much I want to be able to do first, so much to...