after 3 years
my little stick
left untouched
given time and space
has grown into
a baby peony tree
well worth the wait
for its very first bloom.
—
“in early june, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
-john steinbeck
and yet again
we find ourselves caught up
in the dance
of ‘daylight savings time’
as we
readjust once more
are we early
are we late
are we on time
whose time are we on
no one is quite sure.
—
“the trouble is, you think you have time.”
-buddha
—
image credit: ‘silhouettes’ by harry finder
excited to see a new film
(one of my favorite things to do)
i arrived precisely
at the designated time and place
(with time to meet up, buy tickets, grab a ‘movie-buttered’ popcorn, chatter a bit, and find our seats)
only to discover
that i had organized it so that
we were precisely
24 hours late for the show.
—
p.s. i really do make every effort to be on time for things
but this has also happened
with a holiday party i was really excited to attend
a few years back
is this a pattern? see below –
“nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.”
lillian hellman
“we must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact
that each moment is a miracle and mystery.”
-h.g. wells
—
on daylight savings time day once again – fall back
—
image credit: ‘fir forest’ painting by gustav klimt
the northern hemisphere summer solstice will occur at 5:14 a.m. et on june 21, 2022
the hour is upon us
—
“an inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.”
-confucius
oubaitori is a japanese idiom written as a combination of kanji characters,
representing four trees that bloom in spring: cherry, plum, apricot and peach.
—
i believe this to be true for everyone
from the youngest child
to the most elderly.
and once again
the meaningless disruption
of daylight savings time
has returned
leaving
many of us
unmoved by it.
—
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
-bill watterson, calvin and hobbes
—
image credit: wallhere.com
on the first of three days
of parent-teacher conferences
at the end of just our second family meeting
one of us
(names are unimportant)
closed the conference
with a friendly goodbye –
“have a great weekend!”
only to
glance up
noticing
it was actually
tuesday at 10:02am.
almost there….
—
“begin with the end in mind.”
-stephen covey
and with the return of daylight savings time,
this quote is more relevant to me than ever.
i literally just want to know what is the right time?
the usps has announced that the price of forever stamps is going up
isn’t that the purpose of buying forever stamps,
so you never ever have to pay more or wonder what the current price is?
so forever isn’t forever?
—
i decided to ask my reliable old friend, merriam webster –
forever adverb
for·ev·er | \ fə-ˈre-vər , fȯ-; Southern often fə-ˈe-və \
Definition of forever
1
: for a limitless time
wants to live forever
2
: at all times : CONTINUALLY
is forever making bad puns
forever noun
Definition of forever
: a seemingly interminable time : excessively long
it took her forever to find the answer
—
i then asked my two steves for their answer:
” intend to live forever. so far, so good.”
-steven wright
–
“nothing cannot exist forever.”
-stephen hawking
I didn't have my glasses on.... 