another timely observation

“There is an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity under heaven….He has made everything appropriate in its time.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11

From a friend, responding to my last post, on time:

“A big reason that routines and rituals have faded is because we live in a culture that is obsessed with short-term optimization and efficiency.

Judged against this standard, routines and rituals make no sense. They are seen as wasted time, since they offer no direct or immediate productivity. When you execute a routine or ritual you do it for its own sake, and what you make—meaning and significance—isn’t measured by conventional dashboards.

But when it comes to fulfillment and long-term performance, routines and rituals begin to look essential. They take you out of a frantic, frenetic, and frazzled attention economy and put you back in touch with what matters to you most.”

(from David Epstein’s newsletter, Range Widely)