Red and I are slowly finishing a project that we’ve wanted to do since we built our house three years ago: insulate the garage. We did the back wall last fall. The other day we committed to doing the biggest side wall.
First we pulled everything out of the garage, and then we set to work, Red cutting the pieces of insulation and I stapling, and it was all done in less than a half-day. Truth to tell the actual work was done in an hour or so – most of the time was taken up in moving the clutter out of the way and then putting it back.
There was still plenty of time in the day to do several other little projects – although I did have one contradictory thought: Is it really three whole years since we moved into this house? The time has flown by.
And yet it hasn’t – a day is a long time, weeks and months and years are longer. Remember how long ago it was cold? That was “only” four or five months ago. But look how much has happened since.
Time flies only in retrospect. Yes, it seems hard to believe that what happened five years ago was so long ago, but then think of what you’ve been through since. It’s enough to fill up 1,826 days. It’s a full life.
It’s one of those “Is the glass half full or half empty” things. Life presents us with so many choices that we will never see and do quite everything we hope to see and do.And yet the average life is packed full of things seen and done.
Sometimes it’s worth reflecting on what life was like before time “flew by” – how much you had not experienced yet, all of the marvelous inventions that people have invented, all of the new building or all of the land reclaimed and preserved.
That’s when you realize the hours and days passed at the same pace they always have.
I drive the highway to work and see the lush green cornfields and the clean clear pavement, and I try to imagine driving slowly through the same scene packed with snow blowing so hard I can’t see out the windshield very well. I have a flash of a long-ago time when I tried to imagine lush green cornfields and 65 mph.
It seems like a long, long time ago. Perhaps the four seasons are there to remind us that time passes, but that it takes a long time.
All things considered there IS time for everything. The day is just as long as it has ever been.
Door County Advocate, Aug. 12, 2015
1 comment:
It must have been about three years ago I drove by and thought, a new house, no landscaping, no character, no personality. You know, a new house is not a home.
Because I happened to be in Door County last weekend, I took a gander when I passed it on my way out of the county. What a change. A home. Character. Personality. That comfy, cozy, feeling that people live there, people love there, people hang there hat there, have settled in their nest and have made it their very own and grown it from house to a home.
kd
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