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Note: words may be misspelled according to modern standards but historic quotes are direct.

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Time - that bitter sweet companion of all humans.

I read a book in the 1980’s, albeit I can’t recall the title, about invisible beings who stole time from adults.  Those evil burglars would break into lives of people who were busy working, stressing, and rushing they didn’t notice what was taken from them until it was too late. 

 Immortalizing time in song and script began long before any of us were born into this life:

Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven...”

 “Turn, Turn, Turn (to everything there is a season”) or a variation there of, by the Birds in 1962.

 “TIME! TIME!” The Chamber Brothers in 1968 (Their souls were “psychedelicized”) I love that word!

Now the time has come

There are things to realize
Time has come today
Time has come today

Pink Floyd’s “TIME” off the 1973 album, Dark Side of the Moon

“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

...You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

Racing around to come up behind you again”

I would be remiss as a (single) Christian not to mention a most important quote from the scriptures:

Luke 12:42  “...and again when he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, blessed are those servants when he cometh, that he shall find so doing;”

 

I believe the times we are in are necessary to remind all who read this blog and I would be remiss as a citizen of the United States not to mention the Constitution:

"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; …"
Samuel Adams   (Samuel Adams was a true revolutionary. He was one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty. His leadership helped organize the Boston Tea Party. He was a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses and fought for the Declaration of Independence. He also helped draft the Articles of Confederation. He helped write the Massachusetts Constitution and became its governor.    americanhistory.about.com)

George Washington, you know, the first president of the United States who fought in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution:

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." cap-n-ball.com 

Does anyone speak with such passion and beauty now? Well, Anne Perry does a fantastic job of it.

 

An interactive poem:

 

Time was so sweet

Hand in hand with unaffected simplicity