Today we receive a gift, an extra 24 hours, wrapped up as February 29th. 2012 is a leap year. Leap years are years which contain one additional day to keep the calendar year in sync with the seasonal year.
Are we really gaining time? I am not sure. But, I am game to act like we have. The subject of 'time' is on everyone's lips. Mostly, that there is not enough. So, we have an extra 24 hours this year! Wonderful! What will you do with the extra day this year; the 24 hours…1440 minutes…86400 seconds? A writer of science fiction, Ray Cummings, wrote in 1922, "Time... is what keeps everything from happening at once". So true! I sometimes am doing so many things that I find myself in the hallway going around in a circle, my brain and body screaming "stop"! Considering that looming prediction that the world will possible end in doomsday this year I am grabbing every moment I can and savoring it, not all at once, but separately. I start with February 29th.
It would be great if the world would pause. We could simply push a special button, like we do with our ipod. Time would stand still. We could all use a day when we did nothing, absolutely nothing, just be. I doubt that will happen. We all have our bucket list and our even smaller rainy day list. One of the things on my rainy day list has been to launch my blog. It is at little scary, like jumping off the high dive, but at this moment there seems to be some good symmetry, an extra day to do it and a moment of reflection at the passing of Jan Bernstein. The Bernstein Bears books are now into their second generation in our family. Thank you Jan and Stan Bernstein for the stories you gave us.
So, I hope you give yourself permission to do something impulsive, skip down the street, call your grandpa, read a book, anything with these extra 24 hours, go ahead: buc the trend!
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