Sunday, June 24, 2012

Tempus Fugit

The clock tower in Finale Emilia (near Ferrara) after an earthquake in the region of Emilia Romagna, Northern Italy, on May 20, 2012
The clock tower in Finale Emilia (near Ferrara)
after an earthquake in the region of Emilia Romagna,
Northern Italy, on May 20, 2012

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living. - Max Lerner, American Politician and Columnist (1902-1992)