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When the Minutes Change Every Fifteen Seconds
This is hard to write about. Not because writing itself is hard for me — on the contrary, it is the most natural thing that this body is still able to do. But this subject is difficult, because it will require great clarity to properly explain. I don’t want to leave anything out, nor to bewilder my readers. In fact, I am hoping that they will identify.
Michael Hunter, MD has written about the changes in our brain from daylight to darkness. The man knows whereof he speaks.
I have two digital clocks with big red numbers that are easy to see in a dark room. It often seems like the clock in my Living Space only changes its minute-number every five minutes — while the clock in my Bedroom/Office changes its minute-number every fifteen seconds!
Please understand that it just seems that way subjectively, depending on what I am doing and thinking, and on the time of day. If you were to hook these clocks up to the Atomic Clock in Zurich, they would both be functioning properly.
But, as Einstein observed, Time is relative.
When I’m lying on my side in bed, staring at the red numbers on that clock, my mind conjures up Harry Chapin singing “Cat’s in the Cradle.” I think of all the Boomers I know who say their children grew up too fast.
