Take Back Your Life!

I’m aware of the swift passage of time. When I was a kid, my mother said to me that life seemed to be going faster and faster with each passing year. She often said, “I don’t know where the time goes.” Now that I’m progressing through life, I understand what she meant. It seemed so slow as a kid, painfully slow at times. Now, it seems ultra fast at times.

March, April and most of May flew by while I worked with others in town to save the Devil’s Den from execution. It’s been mutilated but it’s still with us. In time, erosion will smooth out the gouges left by heavy equipment that didn’t give two hoots about nature.

But as fast as it has gone by, it’s been a terrific three months. I’m surrounded by other folks that care about history and nature. Folks that take time out of their busy lives to do something that matters to them.

All of this attention to time reminds me of the Jim Croce song, Time In A Bottle. He died on September 20, 1973, in plane crash when the pilot flew into what someone called “a black hole.” A week before he died, the song played during a scene in a  a made-for-tv movie called She Lives! That and his death sparked renewed interest in his music. Time In A Bottle reached # 1 in December, 29 1973, three months after he died.

You can hear the song below.

It always seems ironic, when an artist writes a song about time and then dies young. It’s as if s/he knew his/her life might end soon, so they wrote about it.

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day ’til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

My question to you this week, if you could save time in a bottle would you?  And please interpret this anyway you like.

Thanks! Giulietta