Time

Happy New Year!

Times like these it seems at all times, it behooves us to remember to cherish time and to appreciate our place in the constant steady onward ticking of life as it moves us along whatever mysterious trajectory we might find ourselves traversing. Reflecting on this past year it seems there never seems to be enough time, as Jim Croce professed so eloquently and beautifully, but I am grateful for every second of the last year and indeed of every of my past years. I certainly hope to remember to slow down in this new year, to put my iPhone down and listen and look and live more because each passing second is one that we can never regain. Take time to avail my eyes with things well-worth my time, read more books, take more hikes, hunt more mushrooms, build more things, write more words, gaze at my wife and daughter more and at look far far less at the TV and the dark recesses of internet gossip, especially when it shows me nothing but train wrecks like bad NYE lipsyncing and orange-faced twits.

While we're on the subject of time, it comes as no surprise at all to find that even as we trek further and further into the future, that time still adorns and ornaments wrists. Timepieces, all shapes, sizes, prevail as fashion with so many from which to choose, be it an Apple iWatch, some Swiss-made beauty, a cheap Casio or that faulty Akribos you got off Groupon that never seems to tick to tempo, its sticky seconds wasting away as your sweat tarnishes the wristband. As the inescapable ticking of time's endless march bears down on us in this new year, insisting we use these precious seconds to try to do our best, live the best life we can live, I thought it pertinent to take the time to share with you one of my favorite watches. Dear to me because it's so simple, made of wood, darkly stained and beautiful, this EARTH brand watch always makes me feel just that tad more in-time with nature, more dialed-in to the life of trees and plants and life itself. The company boasts that they produce their watches from organic material, not a faux finish, but actual wood, which is neat. Honestly, wear what suits you, but this has been a reliable piece that I love to wear and would give five out of five stars.

EARTH-watches.com

Always indeed there is that love/hate relationship with watches, as they place both limitations on your meanderings, hobbies and frivolities, yet also remind you of dinnertime's approach. If you have to track time and can't just lose yourself in mother nature, then at least wear one you feel good about. Anyway, until next time. Peace!