Take off your Watch
Do take off your watch and forget, for a moment, the passage of time. Life, unfortunately, doesn’t let us do this very often. Our calendars don’t allow us to slow down, they are too full of very important happenings, written down in permanent ink. No, not ink. We don ’t have time for paper calendars, we save our appointments in our smart phones, thereby saving trees. Trees we don’t really see anymore. We have places to be. We have deadlines. We’re busy. But every once in a while, there is a pocket of nothing and everything, a warp in time, and we become aware of a sky full of stars outside, waiting to be gazed upon. It beckons us and for once we go, not to get anywhere, but simply to see. We pedal through the fields, reveling in our late-night biker gang spontaneity. We lay out our picnic blanket in the path, nowhere in particular, and settle down and into each other’s presence to behold the stars and embrace fellowship. Time loses meaning as the conversation slows and de...