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Comment on School’s No Longer Out for Summer by bhamiltonbruce

bhamiltonbruce — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:00:55 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the experience.

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:22:21 +0000

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Comment on Time by bhamiltonbruce

bhamiltonbruce — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:52:36 +0000

Thank you Gemma and I agree. Busy is a way of life that I wouldn’t swap either!

Comment on Time by gemmab82

gemmab82 — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:45:28 +0000

Great post. I am a working mum, and PT student, and still have enough quality time with family. I don’t have a lot of spare time, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!!

Comment on Time by bhamiltonbruce

bhamiltonbruce — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:09:35 +0000

Paul it would be remiss of me not to point out that, of course you must listen more to your wife!

Comment on Time by bhamiltonbruce

bhamiltonbruce — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:59:53 +0000

Thanks for the comment Jon. We are certainly not alone in our thinking! So many working parents and people with caring commitments are trying to juggle the balance every day. We watched a film over the weekend called ‘In Time’. The premise was that once they reached the age of 25 they had 1 year to live. Time was used as a currency in place of money. There was obviously a bigger storyline but the idea of time bought down to the basics of life was thought provoking.

Comment on Time by hutchpr

hutchpr — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:05:50 +0000

I often get annoyed with Annie for being impatient.

There are times when I take more than a few minutes to do something like get ready, check an email or write a tweet. Meanwhile Annie is waiting for me so we can spend time together on a walk with our dog Heidi or visiting family or friends.

To me, it’s only a few minutes; it’s nothing that needs to create panic. But looking at it from a different perspective, how many hours, days maybe weeks do all those misspent minutes make?

Of course we do not need to rush and do things too quickly, but perhaps those minutes wasted should be spent doing the things that matter? Misspent minutes like walks in the sunshine enjoying each other’s company or visiting and spending time with our loved ones.

Perhaps I should spend more time listening to my wife?

Comment on Time by @LifeInCustody

@LifeInCustody — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:31:06 +0000

Lovely post as usual from you, my lovely, thoughtful friend.
Mindfulness of breath meditation. Occasionally stop, feel, and listen to where you are right this minute. All the things, and people and achievements and good health you are blessed with already, right now.
As long as you take that next breath, you have all you actually need, when you think about it.
Love you x

Comment on Time by yorkhull

yorkhull — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:31:07 +0000

Time becomes more focused when we know we cannot do everything, when we know it is running out and when quality matters more than quantity. I know.

Comment on Time by colmmu

colmmu — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:42:08 +0000

Great post – a similar discussion topic in our family of late too. My wife has MS and whilst most of the time we live without it impeding life, recently the symptoms flared up and you realise that over doing the day to day impacts on long term health and well being. At the same time we went back to Norway on vacation, marvelled at true flexible working for both parents, family month (families encouraged to spend 3 weeks at least together over summer) and just how more relaxed and healthy people seemed to be with this approach. Time is ticking, the future is uncertain – are we savouring and cherishing the time right? I don’t think it should have to be work flat out or not at all, neither is good an we need to readdress that balance in our society. Thanks for articulating a lot that has spiralled in my own head I late and it’s good to know not the only ones.