Can’t Put Time in a Bottle

Late Friday afternoon, after a round of errands and an appointment, I found myself on the patio catching up with a small 1993 book of thoughts and aphorisms put together with commentary by author Alexandra Stoddard. In it, she quotes the famous novelist Ernest Hemingway who wrote that, “Time is the least thing that we have . . . “

That comment arrested my attention, because I have a wholly opposite view; namely, that time is – unlike Hemingway’s notion – the most thing that we have. It remains the fundamental element with which we have to work.

Time is a benefit not of our own making, but presented to us freely to do with what we will. But it is the most finite of resources, bounded at each end by the unyielding markers of birth and death. Time, if used well, can become a solid foundation upon which we all may build the individual structures of our lives.

Focus and build well, friends. Enjoy the fleeting moments with those you care for and who care for you.

Thanks for checking in. May your days be abundant with the essentials that matter.

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(Enjoy Glen Campbell performing his plaintive rendition of Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC8bygMhrvs&feature=related)