The clock is running for all of us, isn’t it?
The question is, what are you going to do with it?
Or is there important work to do?
I, for one, have a million things to get back to…
Beside me on a shelf sits a human skull that I bought forty years ago in an open-air market in Mexico City. It reminds me that “All men are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall” (1 Peter 1: 24, NIV). It reminds me that I have work to do and the clock is running.
-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)