Why I Love My Calendar

We need to rein in the chaos of time to save our sanity

Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash

There is nothing as optimistic as a calendar — it takes the endlessly unfolding nature of time and gives it structure and circularity, offering us a sense of fresh starts and soft endings. Calendars (and clocks and all devices that mark time) help us manage the very unmanageable notion of time itself. We’d be literally lost without…