A gardener's year

Looking ahead, I took away (from the hours in a year) the time spent on subsistence, errands, commuting, and paid work. That left about the same number of hours for "other" as for work. This made me think about what falls in the category of "other," and how, because a job, like school, provides a built-in structure, what falls out of it is "time off," often unstructured for this reason. Not everything has to have a structure, of course, nor is "other" always work, but there's a benefit to thinking about it. The gardener's year is one analogy that came to mind. Another is the liturgical year, which has its seasons, its saints' days and feast days. Something of a mix, I thought, might be helpful to shape time, a dimension that grows more valuable as I get older.

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