My dear mother (aged 82), Museum Langen Fondation, Neuss, Germany, 2023.
None of us know how much time we have but, interestingly, time is relative, depending on its observer rather than an immutably fixed constant everywhere in the universe. Our perception of time is especially influenced by our own perspective: Are we living in the moment or looking backward on time? It’s also influenced by our memory of past experiences. As we get older the rate at which we process experiences slows down and thus time seems to “speed up”. The many and often new things young children have to do in a day contribute to their notion that time is more plentiful. Therefore, when looking back, time may feel slower. This can apply to adults, too. When we look back on a time period that was filled with lots of new and exciting things we see a large expense of events and memories. They make it seem like time stretches out. Looking back on fewer moments that have past, the less rich your own representation is, the more it’s going to seem like time went by quickly. Thus, how we process what we experience and see influences how we view time. Not introducing new patterns into your life, can make you feel like time is going by much quicker overall.
The whole concept of “time being of value” only has meaning for living, breathing, thinking and feeling beings. Afterall, a universe with nothing living in it would have nothing of value in it because there would be nothing to appreciate that value itself. Hence, life is the sufficient and necessary condition for anything of value. I think the trick is to make life an adventure - be it in your imagination, in real life or both - not tedious and unimaginative.
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#MyMother
💜 My mother would have been 100 years old today 💜
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Photos of my #Mom in front #gardens - took these before we went to our medical appointments, today 🥰
My Mom is almost 70 yrs old & she's beautiful 💗
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Happy mother day to all of my beautiful mothers out there ❤️💐 👏🎉
#bahdlex #MothersDay
#Mymother instilled in us the notion that there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do.
Esther Clement
To extraordinary #Mothers everywhere, I hope your day is filled with #Love and #Joy.
Portrait of my Mother
A portrait I did of my mother sometime in my twenties with oil pastels
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Nov 12: Someone has Pneumonia
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#MiaMadre aka #MyMother (2015)
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable loss of her mother from pneumonia and related complications.
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My mother …
Not sure when or where this was but it sure looks like summer to me! It’s almost certainly Minnesota or New Jersey. I’m gonna go with Minnesota!
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My parents left today after staying a month and a half at my place. #MyMother shut (me) down three times.
I don’t think she’s coming back 🤷🏻♀️
Her bed here isn’t comfortable enough, the road-trip is too long, but chiefly: I’m here and we don’t get along well even though we make efforts.
Last December, when they visited a month and a half, had been ok-ish for the both of us. Before that, she hadn’t visited for 12 or 13 years.
#MyDad on the other hand is a piece of cake ♥️
#MyMother “Awww I’m going to miss you so much!”
(My parents have been staying at my place for 1.5 month now, and are leaving in two days.)
#AlsoMyMother less than an hour after “Gah, you’re impossible! you misunderstand everything I say!” and then suddenly proceeds to ignoring me while she pouts.
#mymother asked me whether i would mind her doing less rice then (since my sisters were not coming for dinner). she said it in a way that was also somehow implying that #myfather was napping in their bedroom… [my #dream ended here.]
(so my mother is still thinking about feeding us? haha. it was so very lovely—so warm & sweet—to see her again, even it was only in my dream… #imissyou. #iloveyou.)
[my #dream continues…] wanting to clean my eyes, i went to switch on the bright white(!) light in that bathroom and shocked to find the big roll of toilet paper on the wall getting all messed up!
then #mymother came out from the brightly lit kitchen! she was dressed elegantly in a sweater (probably knitted herself) and a skirt, holding her hands in such a way so she wouldn’t get things wet. i went to ask her if they (my sisters) had dumped her (from their shopping trip); she said no.
part of the #sadness comes from the fact that how #singing & #music are basically #célinedion's life, like she said and as we all know.
also kind of "silly" that it usually takes someone else's #suffering for us to learn about others. #empathy is good but not enough. this makes me question myself, how much do i really understand #myfather's #struggle with his #health right now? i heard #mymother once said if she could, she would take+feel the #pain from my sister…wish we could. i wish we could.
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