March 9, 2007

Time to Spend and to Save

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:29 am

I've been thinking . . .

“Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March . . ” This year that is March 11.

The clocks are about to change. I heard a bird yesteday. Soon it will be spring. I hope I get to see it. The tulips are my favorite.

My life has started speeding up. Gee, like it hasn’t been fast all along. Projects are reaching their launch. Big events are happening. SOBcon is one week. My son graduates from college the next. How can time go by faster than it already has?

Spring forward one hour — one hour less. I don’t need less. More might be useful.

Daylight Savings Time. Who is saving mine? I only know who is spending it. That would be me.

Sometimes, without thinking, I spend and save time simultaneously.

We’re on the porch in Massachusetts. My husband is fixing my glasses. My son smiled, “So, you finally found a use for him.”

We’re in the living room in Illinois. I wrote a poem for a kindergarten lesson. “You think you’re five, but you’re only four-thirty,” joked my husband.

I hear my father saying, “If you sleep on the floor, you’ll never have to worry about falling out of bed.”

My my older, older brother called on our 23rd wedding anniversary. “Tell your husband I said he chose wisely.”

When I was small, time was huge, unending, constantly thrusting me forward. But that’s not time, no, not really. Time’s not a moving, unbending force upon me.

Time is a paradox of meaningful or meaningless moments. We can lose track of it We can waste it or wait for our time to be over.

If we’re lucky we find that time is the one thing we can spend by living and save in memories..

Spring back and breathe.

I don’t need to save time, or find time or make more time in my life.

I need to spend more time that I can save as memories.

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27 Comments to “Time to Spend and to Save”

  1. March 9th, 2007 at 8:23 am
    Aaron M. Potts said

    Beautiful, Liz - thanks for sharing!

    Everyone has the same 24 hours in each day, and when we come to the end of this path, it won’t be the tasks that we accomplished during those hours that count, but how much we enjoyed the journey. :)

  2. March 9th, 2007 at 8:26 am
    Mike said

    What a beautiful thought to start the day. Thank you!

  3. March 9th, 2007 at 8:39 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Aaron,
    Welcome!
    Yes, no matter how we try to stretch it or pack it that w4 hours reamins only 24 hours. That’s probably good, I can’t imagine how we might mess things up if it didn’t. :)

    You’re right, we won’t remember the hurry. We’ll remember the places we stopped.

  4. March 9th, 2007 at 8:39 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mike!
    Happy Friday! Thank you for the kind words. :)

  5. March 9th, 2007 at 8:44 am
    Karin said

    “You’re right, we won’t remember the hurry. We’ll remember the places we stopped.”

    Amen.

    You’re a real ‘word-wizard’ sometimes Liz

  6. March 9th, 2007 at 8:49 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Karin!
    Thank you, I’ve never heard “word wizard” before. I like the alliteration. :)

  7. March 9th, 2007 at 9:11 am
    Karin said

    You’re welcome to it. (Owed you something anyway ;-))
    Time is fluid sometimes, not?
    But you’re lucky, her we have to wait until the end of March before we have more light in the evenings again, always a great ‘time’ also

  8. March 9th, 2007 at 9:15 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Karin!
    Yeah, there will be a couple of weeks where we’ll all be confused. Huh! I might look normal. :)

  9. March 9th, 2007 at 10:28 am
    Francie said

    I love Daylight Savings Time! So glad they made it come early this year. It feels like they unlock the daylight for all to share.

    But your theme of spending time wisely is such a good one. And, sometimes so hard to do. One doesn’t always know, ahead of time if the decisions they make in spending their time will result in time well spent.

    Time is a resource for sure. I know that my time with Liz is well spent :)

  10. March 9th, 2007 at 11:53 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Francie,
    I love daylight savings time. I love all of the wonder at the edge of night. I love haing you here. :)

  11. March 9th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
    Whitney said

    From a sign in front of a United Methodist church in North Haven, CT (announcing the following week’s sermon topic):

    You can’t recycle wasted time.

  12. March 9th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Great, Whitney! Thank you!

  13. March 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
    GP said

    Perfect timing :) We just had a guest that really helped me to take a breath, enjoy, be grateful.

    I journaled about it this morning http://fishcreekhouse.blogspot.com/2007/03/so-let-your-light-so-shine.html
    if you get the time :)

    GP in Montana

  14. March 9th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Gp
    Taking a breathe and being grateful is a good thing. :)

  15. March 9th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
    Bob Glaza said

    c’mon, let’s talk - I love seeing that greet me before commenting. Thanks Liz for the perspective on time change…which, nonetheless, manages to mess me up EVERY time. If only I could remember…all that we truly have is this moment, this day…

    breathing my way through Friday :)

  16. March 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Bob!
    I know what you mean. The week after the time change. I break things and walk into walls. it’s inevitable. :)

  17. March 9th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
    GP said

    ah yes, deep ouijay (scanscrit.. must be the grasshopper in me again!) :) breath, bob. Also right on noggin about all there is is this moment.. or as i say , all there is .. is now

    I think that’s one of the reasons i love riding the horses.. You ‘re on their back (hopefully!) and that’s all there is… is this moment… better not be thinking about what you need to do later! Very good exercise in mental management.

    gp in montana

  18. March 9th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey GP,
    keep your head in the moment and you’ll be find now. Your horse will get you to the nearest doctor.

    speaking in tongues up there in MT

  19. March 9th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
    Karma said

    When daylight savings time rolls around in the spring, I always feel like I have been given a big push in the rear.

    I feel like Alice in Wonderland’s little white rabbit.

    For me, the extra hour of daylight at the end of the day is not always appreciated because I am usually at the computer anyway. I would much rather have the extra light in the morning.

    The best part of daylight savings time is in the fall when we can all fall back and turn one hour into 4. Well, I can.

  20. March 9th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Karma!
    I like the daylight in the evening because when I take a nap. I wake and it’s still light out. That way I feel like I got two Saturdays not only 1! :)

  21. March 9th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
    Self Improvement and Law of Attraction Link Love, Volume 5 : Today is that Day said

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  22. March 10th, 2007 at 2:05 am
    Tariq Khan said

    Liz,

    Great post, especially the part about time being the only simultaneously spendable and savable resource. I hope you find lots of time for doing what you want to do this weekend, and that you have lots of good memories to save.

  23. March 10th, 2007 at 5:55 am
    ME Strauss said

    Thank you Tariq,
    To this writer, the specficity of words you choose make what you say that much nicer.

  24. March 10th, 2007 at 11:31 am
    Tariq Khan said

    Liz,

    Thanks for the kind words.

  25. March 10th, 2007 at 11:43 am
    ME Strauss said

    Tariq,
    You’re welcome. :)

  26. March 10th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
    C. B. Whittemore said

    Liz, it’s funny that you bring up time since it’s a constant subject at home as we watch our 5 year old. We remember how slowly time progressed when we were that age, and how fast it speeds by now. And, knowing that, I get so frustrated getting stuck in agonizingly slow situations [as I have this week during back to back trade shows] knowing that time is so short and so much has yet to be accomplished! Congrats on your son’s graduation!

  27. March 10th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi CB!
    Five year olds do have a completely different sense time, don’t they? I remember the way I was following my mom around. Sometimes she’d sed me to the kitchen to see what itme it was, just to keep me busy.

    tjaml for the kind words on my son’s graduation.

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