I can’t imagine he’s alive now…
Thinking about friends and near friends, and a few who never would have become friends. But time goes by for them all, just the same. .
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Heading earthward…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 2, 2022 | Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Self-image, The self, Time | 0 |
I have an old friend (old as in I’ve known him for forty-four years, and old as in he turned one hundred six weeks ago). We met in 1978 and have been close since, though he is thirty years my senior. When he was my current...
Read MoreWhen I lived in Chile…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 23, 2022 | Contentment, Death, Mortality, Notes, Time | 0 |
When I lived in Chile in the late 70’s… …there was a constant string of processions to the cemetery in winter. Poorly heated houses, old people, mediocre medical facilities. Colds and flu and pneumonia in the...
Read MoreYou can’t go home again…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 20, 2019 | Contentment, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Search, The self, Time | 0 |
A few days ago, I was listening to an interview of a Venezuelan writer. She had left the shell of what was, only a decade or so ago, one of the more thriving economies of Latin America. Now living in Spain, she had written a...
Read MoreReview of “The Art of Time,” by Jean Louis Servan-Schreiber
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 28, 2018 | Book Review, Contentment, Happiness, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Time | 4 |
“Your time or your life!” (—Jean-Louis Servan Schreiber, in “The Art of Time.” Marlowe & Company, New York City 2000, 162 pages) The opening line of this readable little book cuts immediately to its core message....
Read MoreTime Travel: “He’s walking in my tracks…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | May 18, 2017 | Contentment, Happiness, Notes, Search, Time | 2 |
…but he can’t fill my shoes” — Jerry Lee Lewis You’d think that living in East Tennessee, I would take country music for granted. But driving home from Knoxville tonight I picked up the classics...
Read MoreCreate the past you want
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 30, 2016 | Contentment, Happiness, Notes, Search, Time | 1 |
It’s an insightful way to consider the actions and decisions you take today. We like to think we can direct our futures, and to an extent, that’s true. But any guarantee is a myth. Thinking you can control the...
Read MoreI’ve decided that time is indeed money…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 7, 2016 | Contentment, Death, Happiness, Notes, Search, Time | 0 |
…or very like it in one respect, anyway. It has to do with how we use the time we have, not the time we want. With money, there are two ways to be rich, by having more or by wanting less. Truly happy people are the latter,...
Read MoreLife feels so ephemeral at times…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 2, 2016 | Meaning, Notes, Search, Time, Uncategorized | 0 |
I think that must be why the deconstruction of something like a camp or a festival site or a nomadic encampment seems so surreal. But it is also why we must find meaning in every moment, wherever we are, in whatever we are doing...
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