\u201cIf I could save time in a bottle,\u201d sang Jim Croce, \u201cthe first thing that I\u2019d like to do, is to save, every day, til eternity passes away, just to spend them with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
What is a time capsule, but time somehow encapsulated, in what – ?<\/p>\n
A photograph.
\nA ticket stub.
\nA newspaper clipping.
\nA windup penguin.
\nA lock of hair.
\nA campaign bumper sticker.
\nA bullet casing.
\nA necklace.
\nA bottle of beer.<\/p>\n
You laugh, but the Egyptians did it. Though as I recall, the beer wasn\u2019t that good. Would what we leave behind be any better a thousand years from now? Two thousand?<\/p>\n
What does it matter what\u2019s buried and entombed?<\/p>\n
It is a reflection of lives lived, and a time of existence.<\/p>\n
We cannot capture time in a bottle. We cannot save up past eternity.<\/p>\n
Eternity, Joseph Campbell said, is here and now.<\/p>\n
Be present. Don\u2019t collect time, spend it.<\/p>\n
[Prompt 5: You find a time capsule buried in the backyard of your new home (or anywhere else, depends on you). What\u2019s in it? How old is it or its probable story is up to the poet.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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