One of the more interesting books that I did read in more recent times, was 'Girls of Riyadh'. In many ways, what truly did make it interesting was that, when I did read it, I was currently then, living more or less in the Western World {Sweden to be specific}, but what truly again, did catch my attention was not the Wealth in all, that these so called 'Girls of Riyadh' did enjoy or display even, but in all too actually, how they did keep Time in itself actually. That Time in their World in all again, was more or less conceptualized, in a manner similar to that seen in the old World actually, and such that, they had the free time even {something inexistent in many ways, and in the Western World too actually}, to simply enjoy themselves laying around, and doing nothing much in all actually. It was this, how they did keep Time that is, that did truly have me wanting in many a way actually, to want to move back to my country of origins, Kenya, and simply live life differently (and as with Time too that is), and as compared truly, to how I did envision Time while much younger perhaps {and as with it even, consisting of many an emergency too that is}.
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The song above 'Sign o the Times' and by Prince too, does evoke many a memory {and as does the whole album too actually: 'Sign of the Times that is}, and of my growing up in Karen/Lakeview in many ways, and in particular too, on the very lane I did grow up in all actually {and as with it in all too even, evoking many a memory actually, of time not only truly actually spent in all, with the neighbouring Muhindi clan/family that is (and the famed 'quart' in all again, of Sam, Catherine, Eric, and Pat too actually)} {I do remember though, once walking to the Muhindi household and to visit Sam too, and surprisingly enough, finding Eric, beating the hell out of my 'elder brother' Bob actually}.
How though, is it best to not only in all, actually keep Time, but in many ways truly, actually Measure it? A difficult question for most, and as with the Western/Modern World, having come to define for most out there {and especially as with regards to Resources too that is}, just how in all, to actually not only keep Time that is, but truly in all again, just how to Measure it in all {and as with speak too even, of Delays that is}. To understand this better, is to understand just how the Western/Modern World, has come to highly define Time for the rest of us, and as based around its highly inefficient even, Institutions that is {and that in all again, their does exist a concept of Time, that one could call 'Institutional Time' actually}. That in all, just about every waking moment of our lives, is defined somewhat, by Western/Modern Institutions (and as with how they do keep Time even) {and as with the simple case even, of having to wait for a Bank to open, or even truly again, having to deal with ones local Shop, lacking in the commodities/bread perhaps, that one might in all, badly need actually}.
The concept of 'Institutional Time', in many ways truly, does originate in Asia in itself actually. In Asia though, it was a far more developed concept, than that actually seen, and in the Western/Modern World today actually {and whose concept of efficient Time, does go along truly well, with a so called excellent even, Workforce actually}. In Asia though, and with the Chinese for instance, Time ('Institutional Time' that is), was heavily based around Oracles actually, and such as the I-Ching Oracle for instance {and which in all, was actually used by many a Chinese Institution, to keep or manage Time even, and as with the I-Ching, simply consisting in all, of Wisdom and as based around Time issues too actually} {and all this too, responsible for generating a self-help industry in all, and seen all over the World today actually, publishing books too, on just how best to manage ones Time in all too really}. In India on the otherhand, 'Institutional Time', came to be closely associated with Lord Rama actually {and as with he even, believed able, of making just about any of ones dreams, come easily true in all too really}. In the Western/Modern World though, one does find that 'Institutional Time' in all, has in all again resulted in many a person out there, viewing/keeping/measuring Time in all, from the perspectives of danger, emergencies, trouble, pain etc. {and as with this even, having come in all again, to be used in all too really, in viewing just about anything out there, and not only as with it happening in our Present times, but also the Future too (and as with it even painfree that is), but especially in all again, the Past too actually (and as with it even, truly distorting History, and as with many a Western/Modern Textbook too that is)}.
All this though, 'Institutional Time' in itself that is, is not how Time in all again, was actually kept in many a place outside Asia actually. Take for instance, the Middle East, and the very world too, of the 'Girls of Riyadh' perhaps, one does find that, in that part of the World, the whole goal of life, was to accumulate as much Wealth as one possibly could {and while young too that is}, and in many ways truly, simply then live life as freely as one could possibly want to {and as with saying that, Economics in all, and in the Middle East too, do tend to function perhaps, in rather different ways from the rest of the World actually, in that, it is in the Middle East and in all too, where in all again, the accumulation of Wealth and into the Billions too, is deemed not only possible, but possible too, for nearly just about everyone else out there actually} {and as with attempting to understand all this too, highly based around knowing that life in the Middle East, does truly in all again, have a high Communications perspective to it all actually (and not Speech/Intelligence in particular either), and with this in all again, somewhat in all ways even, making all this rather possible (that is, it being possible for just about everyone in the Middle East, to be a Multi-Millionaire actually, and as based around the fact that life in the Middle East, truly does function, work or operate even, highly based around Communications in all, and which does premeditate in all again, the very quick exchange even, of ideas, money and resources in many ways truly)} {and all this again perhaps, speaking in all again, of actually Producing Wealth (and as with Communications too that is), and not Creating it either (and as with Speech/Intelligence issues perhaps)}.
You do then have Europe on the otherhand, where Time in all, has always been truly kept, from the perspective of Conscious States actually {and while this is true of the rest of the World in all too even, it does though, reach its peak in Europe actually (and as with what even, the so famed Sun Kings of Europe perhaps, were truly all about: measuring Time in all, and from the perspective of Conscious States too that is)}. In many ways too, a way of measuring and keeping Time in all too even, falsely highly believed Egyptian (but truly so, and as with regards to Political matters perhaps), but in Europe, it spoke in all too really, of Cultural matters actually. To understand this much better, is to in some ways even, see the very important role that the Violin in all, did play in European life actually. That in many ways too, the Violin is an instrument, that does help one highly develop in all too even, Conscious States of all kinds actually, but with a true understanding of this based around knowing in all again that, it was the Europeans, who truly did master Time, and as based around not only Conscious States that is (and as with the Cultural too that is), but in all ways too even, the very world again of the Clockwork {i.e. Routines, Sub-routines, Agendas, Programs, Curriculums etc.}. That in all again, it was actually the Europeans who did master all this perfectly even, and as based around Cultural matters too, and in all too, the Violin in all again, at the very heart even, of all this actually {that in all, the music of the Violin did accompany all forms of Clockwork based existences (and as with it underlying even, just how an agenda for instance, was to truly play out and in all too really)}.
Then you do have America on the otherhand, where Time in all again, has often been measured from a rather Radial perspective actually. To understand this better, is to understand a common known belief and by many too, and that does in all say that, 'the more things change, the more things do remain the same actually'. A way of keeping time, seen amongst not only Native Americans in North America, but in Boston, America too {and a way of keeping Time, highly associated in all, with what they do call 'Participation' in all too really} {that in all again, it is able to keep Time, and as with a Party or Football Game too even, based around perceiving things in all, from a participation perspective that is (and that in a Football Game for instance, nothing truly does ever change, and as based around just whom at the present, is playing/participating in the Game actually; and this too, not only speaking of the Players in themselves, but also in many ways truly, the kind of Crowds watching it all perhaps)}. In all, a belief that, it is possible to turn back the hands of Time, by calling into play/participation, just about anything in all, that was participating in all again, a while back perhaps, or even truly again, speed Time in itself even, by attempting to predict in any situation perhaps, just what or whom even, could be called into play/participation, and in the very future too actually (and as with being able in all again, to turn back America's History, by introducing into play/participation perhaps, someone or something in all, possessing the Spirit in all again, of an older Time period actually)} {that in all too even, doing this, can simply make things begin changing back on their very own, and into past times too actually}.
There is a version of Time in all, associated in many ways, with not only Magic in itself, but in many ways truly, the very world in all again, of Einstein {and speak too even, of his theories on Relativity and Brownian Motion in all too really}. A way of measuring Time perhaps, which in all again, does call into question, issues pertaining, to Self-Mastery in all too really {and as with Self-Mastery even, highly believed Chinese/Japanese, and not Egyptian or African either}. For the Egyptians though, Time in Africa, was not something easy to conceptualize actually {as with popular modern beliefs even, that Time in itself does not actually exist in Africa that is}, but they did in all again, conceptualize it in all, as highly based around Self-Mastery in itself actually {and including too, the mastering of Speech in itself actually}. That when one did Master their very Selves in all again {and as with another popular African saying that does say in all again that, 'the early bird catches the worm'}, they did in all too really, experience Time/Reality, and in a way too, highly based around their very own Personal Thoughts actually {that in all, if you did think of something positive perhaps, it would in all again, easily manifest, and as based around Self-Mastery issues in all too really (and as with the ability even, to hold the Image of what was wanted, in ones mind and for a rather prolonged time period too actually)}. That in all again {and as with Einstein and his theories on Brownian Motion and Relativity in itself}, what did happen to one and while in Africa {and as with the Magical even}, was highly based around, what kind of Thoughts one did hold regularly, or even truly again, the ability to remain Positive at all times actually {and such that, one was in many ways even (and as with speak of Relativity too that is), able to truly in all again, manipulate and control in some ways even, their direct environments in all too really}.
Having totally quit the Western/Modern World {and on my deportation from Sweden too that is}, and all this too, not perceived remorsefully actually {and as with my coming to fully understand, just how Westerners/Moderners in all, did conceptualize Time in itself actually (and as 'Institutional Time' too that is)}, I did in all again, wonder to myself, just how best in all, I would survive in Kenya perhaps, and as based around truly, many in it in all again, adhering to Time, and as somewhat associated even, with poor operating Modern/Western Institutions that is {and as with emergencies even, not easily dealt with and in many ways actually}, or even truly again, many now seeking to operate based around Time in all, and as seen in the Middle East too actually {the attempt in all again, to accumulate as much Wealth and in the shortest time too, and then simply live of it} {a way of life though, that has had serious even, psychological repercussions, and for those in Kenya too, and as with furtherly saying that, it truly only does work, in the Middle East and not America either}.
In many ways though, and as with conceptualizing Abyssinia in itself, I did come to see all this, from the very fact that most living in Kenya/Abyssinia, have no clue at all, and as with regards, to living life in itself actually {that unless, one did conceptualize Time in all again, in a way that was conducive, for a perfect life in Abyssinia in all (that being, one in all again, without too much of any kind or form of problem actually), one was bound in all again to live a life, and filled to the brim too, with all kinds and forms even, of problems in all too really (and as in saying that, Kenya in all again, is truly capable, of truly being Hell on Earth actually)} {and as with saying furtherly that, problems in Kenya, simply seem to pile up on their own and at all times too actually, and that there is a big problem too, associated in all again, with coming up with Institutions in all, to help deal with these problems (and other than resorting to the Religious that is)}.
In many ways though, I do believe I did finally get it right actually. That Time in Abyssinia in all {Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia}, can be conceptualized in a rather interesting manner {and as with it even psychological in many ways truly}, and as highly based around, the very issue of Sunlight in itself actually. That in all, and psychologically speaking too, most in Abyssinia, do deal in all again, with issues of Self-Illuminance. That in all again, most in Abyssinia, simply in all and psychologically too, do simply seek to feel good about themselves, by seeing themselves in all too really, in a rather good light of things actually {meaning in all again that, they do in all, tend to want to be highly perceived by others and at all times too even, and in many ways truly, be in the right conditions/circumstances/environments, and at just about any time too actually}. This in all ways even, is what Self-Illuminance does speak of, and as with speak too even, of a spiritual theory, the attempt in all again, to truly feel good about oneself actually {and as with not only all the time, but the very fact that, this can only be achieved, via for instance, becoming a highly Creative person for example} {that in all again, accumulating Money/Wealth and in its known forms/kind today, does not bring happiness in all ways even (and as with feeling good about oneself), for those living in Abyssinia that is}.
In all again, all this speaking of Sunlight in itself, and as Spiritually too, associated in all too really, with helping define Self-Illuminance {that in all again, Sunlight in itself, is believed layered actually, and that there are different amounts to it all actually (and not intensities either), and that do define in all, just how good one truly does look like actually (and as with speak too even of the very fact that, some people do actually look good, with little light shining on them, and all this too, speaking of the field of Photography in itself that is)}. In all ways though, a belief in all again, in simply becoming Immaculate in one way or another {and as with being highly Creative too}, and as with saying that, the more Immaculate {Self-Illuminated} one is, the more easily one is able to think of solving/dealing with their problems in all, and in all ways too really, speaking of the very fact that, Wealth in Abyssinia in all again, can only be best perceived in all too really, from the perspective of 'high Creativity', and the Immaculate in all too really (and as with saying that, the only kind of Wealth that does suffice for Abyssinia, is the kind, one would for instance in all, find being 'sold' in an Auction for instance)} {that in all too really, speaking of Wealth in Abyssinia in many ways, is to speak of the Regal and in all ways too even}.
Hasta
Chip Donaldson
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