Ah, we are at the beginning of another New Year and
the world awaits what wonderful things we can accomplish this year.
Time is such an important part of our lives and is so personal to
each of us that there are hundreds of ways to describe it. Each of
us has our own specious present. This year, do not bide your time.
Use this window of time to spend some face time with family and
friends and keep them close for all time.
Words from the Rolling Stones (I like the second version) title come
to mind LINK.
In the nick of time we look at the fresh calendar, sit a spell,
adjust our circadian clock, and ponder the current epoch. This is
the kairos to begin before we reach our first poronkusema.
Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune
moment (the supreme moment).
The Finnish word poronkusema describes the distance equal to how far
a reindeer can travel without taking a comfort break.
The Malaysian word for the time it takes to eat a banana is pisan
zapra. To say that someone would arrive in pisan zapra means they
could be expected in a few minutes.
The Turkish phrase 'zaman dilimi' means time period as does the
Haitian Creole phrase 'peryòd tan'.
A jubilee is 50 years.
A vigil is a period of time, especially at night, when you stay in a
place to wait for something or to give your support.
In medieval time, a moment was defined as being 90 seconds.
In the Old Testament, Yom is translated as period of time, such as
year, always, and more.
A sidereal time is the measurement of time relative to a distant
star. It is used in astronomy to predict when a star will be
overhead. A sidereal day is 4 minutes less than a solar day.
Scientist Gilbert Newton Lewis defined a jiffy in the early 1900s as
the amount of time it takes light to travel 1 centimeter (0.4 in),
which is about one-hundredth of a second.
A Planck is the duration light takes to travel one (Max) Planck
length, theorized to be the smallest duration measurement that will
ever be possible, roughly 10 to the 43rd seconds.