Of Clocks and Cats

“Time 
spent 
with 
cats 
is 
never 
wasted.”
—Attributed to Colette, May Sarton, 
Sigmund Freud and, no doubt, others

[Art by Pierre Bonnard.]

Revel in Today

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Art by Claude Monet.]

What Will You Do Today?

“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
—Annie Dillard

[Art by Guy Orlando Rose.]

What Time Is It?

It’s Daylight Saving Time, an occasion when even the Rooster needs more coffee. Yet, how can we complain when we’ve already had Leap Day’s extra 24 hours?

[Art from Shaun the Sheep.]

A Gift of Time

It’s Leap Day. Make the most of it.

[Pic by Davies up North.]

Wisdom from Fiction: What Matters

“By the time everything is decided, it will be too late. The moment is always now. There is no then, it turns out. Everything real is a kind of now.”
—Hope, the elderly artist in John Updike’s Seek My Face

[I’ve no idea whose artwork this is. Do you?]

I’ll Be Back

Sorry for the quiet here on Lull. I’ve been time-traveling.

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
—Mary Schmich

Keeping Track of the Days

“This must be Thursday. … I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
—from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

[Just watched The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The quote seemed a good excuse to post a pic of this retired racehorse.]

Time Out of the Bottle

Here's an odd thing about being unemployed: time. I used to have to keep track of it, allocating minutes to whichever project I picked up. I was constantly juggling, too; rarely had the pleasure of seeing one project through to completion before starting another one. Deadlines were stacked one on top of another and there was no downtime. Minding the clock was such a habit that now I have to stop myself sometimes from writing down how long I spent reading the N.Y. Times, how many minutes it took to get a glass of water, how many hours went by as I looked online for job opportunities. I actually have more time now that I don't have to monitor it.

During a lull, time can fritter away. During a lull, it's wise to develop new habits.