tic toc — clock collection series

Time is measured
by the beats of a clock.

Seconds.
Minutes.
Hours.
Days.
Months.
Years.

Time means different things to different people.

It can refer to a tempo in a piece of music, an expression of multiplication, an event, a prison sentence, a life time, the conditions of an era and so on.

My husband is a writer and poet. He writes about time — time past, time future but rarely the present time. He finds the tick and tock of a clock relaxing. The Westminster Chimes on our grandfather clock sound every quarter hour, with the great bell every hour.

I've gotten used to the sounds over the years and I think I would miss the beats and off beats if they were gone.

I own many clocks. Many. I haven't counted. Not one clock shows the same time.

Some are wind up clocks with weights and chains and that need to be wound with a key. Several are more modern and require battery changes twice a year - spring ahead, fall back. One is a digital projection clock for the ceiling. I also own a few pocket watches, and some vintage wrist watches.

The pictured clock was given to my husband by our son and his son. They built it together and painted it as a Father's Day gift. It hangs proudly in our "green" room.

When you are nine years old, what you remember seems forever;
for you remember everything and everything is important
and stands big and full and fills up Time
and is so solid that you can walk
around and around it like a tree and look at it.

You are aware that time passes,
that there is a movement in time,
but that is not what Time is.

Time is not a movement,
a flowing,
a wind then,
but it is, rather, a kind of climate in which things are,
and when a thing happens it begins to live
and keeps on living and stands solid in Time
like the tree that you can walk around.

And if there is a movement,
the movement is not Time itself,
any more than a breeze is climate,
and all the breeze does is to shake a little the leaves on the tree
which is alive and solid.

_{Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), Blackberry Winter, 1946}

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