Fast Time and Slow Time
11/13/06 - 2nd Day - Before Breakfast. We had a very good and quiet Sabbath. We have a friend from the BA.com forum in town for a visit, so we did go into Santa Anna to look around a bit. Then we came back to the ranch to read and relax. I am still reading IVANHOE by Sir Walter Scott, which is a very nice story.
Yesterday on the Lord's Day, we had our singing and fellowship, and I gave an impromptu sermon on The Purpose of the Devil, which I hope to get uploaded some time today. The cows figured out how to open the fence to the top pasture, so we had to go up there a few times and put them back in. Last night we bungie corded the fence closed and we are hoping that they haven't been trying to defeat the cords all night.
You might wonder about the way I "time" the blog posts.... "before breakfast", "after lunch", etc. That timing mechanism is what we call "slow time". If someone asks you what time it is and you are on "city" or "fast time", you say "5:58 a.m.". If you are on agrarian, or "slow time", you say "before breakfast". It is a fun way to remind yourself that you are no longer punching a clock and you aren't hurried along in the stream of secular and industrial destruction by a ticking clock. Of course it gets tricky when my wife comes out where we are working and asks "what time do you want lunch". The correct answer would be "lunch time", but that might make her mad. So I try to say... "how about in an hour?", or "anytime would be fine". Anyway, going on slow time does make a difference in your attitude and helps to differentiate this life from that which we abandoned.
Here is a very good site that I have been reading this morning: http://ruralheritage.com There is a ton of good information on that site.
I hope all is well with you all. We're back to work on the root cellar this morning, and I'll try to post some pictures today or tomorrow if the Lord wills.
Michael Bunker
Yesterday on the Lord's Day, we had our singing and fellowship, and I gave an impromptu sermon on The Purpose of the Devil, which I hope to get uploaded some time today. The cows figured out how to open the fence to the top pasture, so we had to go up there a few times and put them back in. Last night we bungie corded the fence closed and we are hoping that they haven't been trying to defeat the cords all night.
You might wonder about the way I "time" the blog posts.... "before breakfast", "after lunch", etc. That timing mechanism is what we call "slow time". If someone asks you what time it is and you are on "city" or "fast time", you say "5:58 a.m.". If you are on agrarian, or "slow time", you say "before breakfast". It is a fun way to remind yourself that you are no longer punching a clock and you aren't hurried along in the stream of secular and industrial destruction by a ticking clock. Of course it gets tricky when my wife comes out where we are working and asks "what time do you want lunch". The correct answer would be "lunch time", but that might make her mad. So I try to say... "how about in an hour?", or "anytime would be fine". Anyway, going on slow time does make a difference in your attitude and helps to differentiate this life from that which we abandoned.
Here is a very good site that I have been reading this morning: http://ruralheritage.com There is a ton of good information on that site.
I hope all is well with you all. We're back to work on the root cellar this morning, and I'll try to post some pictures today or tomorrow if the Lord wills.
Michael Bunker
Labels: agrarian, root cellar, slow time
posted by Michael Bunker at 11/13/2006 03:44:00 AM
1 Comments:
We are looking forward to switching our clocks to agrarian time. What a blessing it will be on "slow time." the antes
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