Dear Friend,
I hope that today is a lovely start to your week ahead. Your week ahead… imagine that, your very own time. Calendars and clocks aside, it’s your life. But then, convention demands that we humans organize our lives around that commonality: Time.
We’re still at Miss B’s house in northern California. As you might remember from last week, we recently purchased a trailer and Frank has been working all week on our truck, improving the suspension. We had ordered parts to be delivered to Miss B’s and they have been slowly trickling in… a delay in parts delivery has slowed down progress so the truck is still patiently waiting to be back on its wheels. We will need to leave here in a few days, so, now that the parts are here, Frank will need to work quickly to complete the upgrades.
But the job cannot be rushed, mistakes cannot be made, and Frank is, as I mentioned last week, very meticulous, so it’s simply not a speedy process. Among other important things, Miss B and I play with the tennis ball and watch out for ways to help Frank. Meanwhile, with our departure date approaching, Frank and I are well aware of time. Panic must be staved off… we must keep breathing.
And so, we are in a measured, oxygen rich, race against that very familiar competitor, time.
Have you ever wondered why, even when we’re standing still, we’re run by clocks?
It seems that people needed a common way to maintain consistency, control… imagine… in the history of the world, punctuality is a fairly new concept.
Here’s a short video about The Invention of the Clock.
Are you known for being on time? Or maybe you have a tendency to be late? It’s interesting to consider that they say, people who run late live longer. I guess the idea is that these people don’t allow time to stress them out. What do you think? Read a Harvard Study about People Who are Always Late....
I had a different idea for my blog/letter… but this morning, Frank will start working very early and I’ll need to be nearby to hand him tools or parts or whatnots, so today’s letter is more like a postcard.
All in all, the upgrade is going well, and though getting our truck back on the road isn’t life or death, it is critical to our forward momentum. So, thanks for any good thinks you can toss in our direction.
I’d love to know your thoughts on Time… Please Write and share!
We know that your life is full and busy…Thank you, so much, for being here to read Tracks by the Post!
Have a great week!
Gently Be,
Leslie and Frank
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