Calendar Girl Blog: Selling Time
Basically, I sell time.
My time package comes in a standard one year size, with further divisions of one month and one day parcels packaged within.
Some calendar makers create time packages in increments of minutes. But few calendars direct your attention for more than 18 to 24 months.
I believe we need to start thinking in longer terms.
Imagine a 100 year calendar. At birth, it is your gift. Until you are able to manage a pen yourself, someone writes in dates that resonate as important signifiers of your growth and development. Later, with penmanship mastered, you include whatever benchmarks you want.
Basically, record your everyday life.
Upon your death, your life calendar can be continued by someone else, willing to record offshoots of your life thus showing the process of your life's work.
Because, when we die, our body may vanish but our impact, positive or negative, continues forever.
The real value of such a calendar would not be felt for several decades but with patience and a visionary attitude, a life calendar would be proof positive that you are not an island. Instead, you'd see the wonderful connection of your life with the future and your past.
A group in Guelph are starting a 500 year project. They are intentionally planting an old growth forest, on land owned by Jesuits in the north end of our city.
When I die, my contribution to this brilliant effort will hardly be noticed as significant. Trees take dozens of year's to mature and I'm nearing 50.
But imagine 300 years down the line. If my trees live, they will be marvelous time capsules of my hope for a future, sent from the past.
Calendar Girl is concerned with the planet's future. She believes too many people fail to understand that we are all interconnected and part of continuum that started before time was recorded.
Name any year. People shared the world. We share the world today. And our great grandchildren may share the world in the future.
Unfortunately, Calendar Girl is pretty sure an unreported, 'selfish pandemic' has been sweeping the world for some time now. So our great grandchildren may be out of luck.
Calendar Girl
My time package comes in a standard one year size, with further divisions of one month and one day parcels packaged within.
Some calendar makers create time packages in increments of minutes. But few calendars direct your attention for more than 18 to 24 months.
I believe we need to start thinking in longer terms.
Imagine a 100 year calendar. At birth, it is your gift. Until you are able to manage a pen yourself, someone writes in dates that resonate as important signifiers of your growth and development. Later, with penmanship mastered, you include whatever benchmarks you want.
Basically, record your everyday life.
Upon your death, your life calendar can be continued by someone else, willing to record offshoots of your life thus showing the process of your life's work.
Because, when we die, our body may vanish but our impact, positive or negative, continues forever.
The real value of such a calendar would not be felt for several decades but with patience and a visionary attitude, a life calendar would be proof positive that you are not an island. Instead, you'd see the wonderful connection of your life with the future and your past.
A group in Guelph are starting a 500 year project. They are intentionally planting an old growth forest, on land owned by Jesuits in the north end of our city.
When I die, my contribution to this brilliant effort will hardly be noticed as significant. Trees take dozens of year's to mature and I'm nearing 50.
But imagine 300 years down the line. If my trees live, they will be marvelous time capsules of my hope for a future, sent from the past.
Calendar Girl is concerned with the planet's future. She believes too many people fail to understand that we are all interconnected and part of continuum that started before time was recorded.
Name any year. People shared the world. We share the world today. And our great grandchildren may share the world in the future.
Unfortunately, Calendar Girl is pretty sure an unreported, 'selfish pandemic' has been sweeping the world for some time now. So our great grandchildren may be out of luck.
Calendar Girl
posted by Sue Richards at 3:32 PM
2 Comments:
So you’re a calendar seller….working in accounting many people call me a “bean counter.” go figure???
Hi Nick,
I was a bean counter once too, literally. I was broke, on the island of Crete. I sorted and counted sacks of beans as payment fpr my room and board. Lasted 2 1/2 days. Bet the 'bean counting' that you do is a derivative of my Greece gig.
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