Thank you for this! Time--not just "time management" but time itself, and our relation to it--has been much on my mind lately. Perhaps it's because of summer; the stretched-out days evoke some faint sense of eternity. In any event, I've found myself looking back at Augustine's thoughts about time in the Confessions, and also at the Epistle to the Hebrews--especially chapters 3 and 4, where the *chronos* of "today" becomes the *kairos* of an eternal "today," the true Sabbath we should strive to enter (even now!) and in which we rest from our works "as God did from his." Astonishing, this. We need all the help we can get in striving to enter it, and I'm glad to have your essay as one aid.
I'm learning so much from poet philosophers these days (that being a thing is one thing I have learned!) because that combination both deepens that experience of the art and the mind for me. I'll be thinking about this post for a while!
As a short side note- if you and your children haven't read Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, I think you'd find it lovely. And do you have the source for the 2013 poem you quoted, the shorter one?
I could not love this more!
Thank you, your thoughts always expand my own.
Thank you for this! Time--not just "time management" but time itself, and our relation to it--has been much on my mind lately. Perhaps it's because of summer; the stretched-out days evoke some faint sense of eternity. In any event, I've found myself looking back at Augustine's thoughts about time in the Confessions, and also at the Epistle to the Hebrews--especially chapters 3 and 4, where the *chronos* of "today" becomes the *kairos* of an eternal "today," the true Sabbath we should strive to enter (even now!) and in which we rest from our works "as God did from his." Astonishing, this. We need all the help we can get in striving to enter it, and I'm glad to have your essay as one aid.
Lovely essay. I daresay my new favourite poet is Wendell Berry.
I'm learning so much from poet philosophers these days (that being a thing is one thing I have learned!) because that combination both deepens that experience of the art and the mind for me. I'll be thinking about this post for a while!
As a short side note- if you and your children haven't read Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, I think you'd find it lovely. And do you have the source for the 2013 poem you quoted, the shorter one?