You know, it really is true that time seems to pass much more quickly as we age.  Perhaps the hours drag sometimes on individual days, but seasons have a way of slipping away at an amazing speed.   One of my life goals has been to stay in the present moment, but doing so is very hard and takes almost constant vigilance.  My tendency is to forget to be vigilant. It seems to me that it was only yesterday that spring came and, where I live in Illinois in the US, buds began appearing on trees and grass began to grow.  I had the whole summer to look forward to, and I was completely involved in the things that would go into my garden this year.  I suppose that I like spring and fall best of all the seasons.  However, in spring, I have summer...

Talking today to a number of people met along the walk to the allotment there is a common theme running through people's minds. They talk not of recession, of lower income and loss of employment – no…they talk of  time. Time, they all believe, is moving too quickly - so much so that some feel they have been in a state of sleep as they suddenly realise that we are into August, yet it feels as if it should be April or May. So what is happening? Are the Mayan calendar predictions of the end of the material world coming true with predictions of time speeding up, commercial institutes collapsing, and dictators toppled from power and the down trodden getting a voice. Yes the Mayans could not see that some of this has happened due to modern tec...