How we spend our days
How we spend our daysis, of course,how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour,and that one,is what we are doing. A scheduledefends from chaosand whim.It is a netfor catching days. It is a scaffoldingon which a workercan standand labour with both handsat sections of time. A schedule is a mock-upof reason and order —willed, faked,and so brought into being; it is a peace and a havenset into the wreck of time;it is a lifeboaton which you find yourself,decades later,still living. Each day is the same,so you rememberthe series afterwardas a blurred and powerful pattern. Annie Dillard
