Karin's Blog: Time: "If there's something I wish I had more of this week, it would be time. With room draw, registration, and tests this week, it's been bu..."
Here Karin puts one of the quotable and much quoted passages from Walden into the context of this week of the semester. Thanks to her for doing so and for demonstrating why these writers are appropriate at this stage of the semester: a reminder that our busy lives and plans are perhaps of less ultimate significance than we are tempted to believe.
A similar sentiment was expressed by a more conventionally Christian hymn writer, Isaac Watts, in his hymn "O God Our Help in Ages Past""
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
bears us all away;
we fly, forgotten, as a dream
dies at the opening day.
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