ABSTRACT
Before certification and trusteeship can be fruitfully discussed, you must be able to understand and integrate two perspectives of time, that of a clock and that of an hourglass. Time as measured by the ticking of a clock is constant in tempo. With a clock, one sees the hands move from second to second, minute to minute, and hour to hour — as round and round the clock’s face they go. To a child, however, time seems to drag, even stand still; to an older person, time seems to fly, despite the fact that watching a clock’s hands make their appointed rounds belies both the impatience of youth and the sensation that time is fleeting in old age.
