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March 2008 Newsletter In This Issue...
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Hey All My intention, if anything, of this newsletter is just to present the musings of a wandering woman. Take what works for you. Discard what does not. I won't mind a bit. The dogs and I still take our daily walks. They wear their coats. But now I leave mine hanging on the hook at the back door. The days are becoming sunnier and full of that hint of Spring. The temperatures are hovering in the upper 30's to lower 40's. Last October those temperatures would have felt quite chilly. Now, in March, it feels divinely warm. In just a day or two I'm headed north for some end-of-the-ice ice fishing in Northern Ontario. The closest timepiece, watch or clock, will be about 35 miles away. I'm putting my life on ice. And, as it always does when I head into the bush, time will stand still. Did you make the shift to daylight savings with grace and ease? I didn't. Oh, my routine wasn't altered much. Within a day or two, I was past any effects on my circadian rhythm. It's just that twice a year the time change annoys me. Now before I hear from all of you who have a preference one way or the other about daylight savings time, let me explain. I don't care whether we're on DST or ST. I just wish we'd land somewhere and stay there. Every year, twice a year, our time shift makes major news. Especially this year with all the speculation about how going on or off daylight savings time helps or hinders global warming, depending of course on the expert of the day being interviewed. When did we all become so obsessed with time? It used to be that sunrise, midday with the sun directly over our heads (give or take), and sunset were enough to keep us together in some sort of common rhythm. Then, as we became more industrialized, we needed to divide our days into smaller and smaller increments as a way to coordinate with each other. At first, on or about a particular hour was good enough. Then minutes within that hour became necessary. Now, especially for those coordinating in the world of computers, seconds hold greater importance. And if that's not enough, as if our game of hours and minutes and seconds has become too boring, we have created a new game where we get to change the time of day twice each year. Now there are whole discussions and disagreements about daylight savings time, how and why it became our practice, whether or not we should be going on each spring and off each fall, when the shift would be most helpful and most appropriate for school children, the earth, business…and on and on and on it goes. What have we come to that we are so busy we need to divide time into tiny increments and then adjust it twice a year based on some theory that only really works for a percent of the population? All I want to do is sit in my chair with my cup of coffee in the morning and watch the sunrise. And I’ll gladly sit in that same chair each evening and watch the sunset. What time the sun rises or sets is not important to me. For the rest of the month I will have the time of my life ice fishing, no longer “doing time,” but instead, in time out! Try it for yourself. I bet you can find one or two days, on occasion, where sunrise and sunset are all that matter. There's no time like the present. "Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life." ~William Faulkner "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked." ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle "But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day." ~Benjamin Disraeli "You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by." ~James Matthew Barrie "Time is making fools of us again." ~J.K. Rowling Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself. An outstanding read by Alan Alda. Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time by Robin Le Poidevin Please visit my Market
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Peace and much love
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