TIME vs. MONEY
“Remember that time is money.” Benjamin Franklin
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” Henry David Thoreau
Two famous Americans, two very different attitudes towards time, the only real commodity any of us really has. Our time on the planet. Many people have written about travel as a life-changing experience. One of my favorites is Pico Iyer who says “When we leave the comfort of the familiar, we pay attention, our notions of ourselves and our world are challenged.”
RAVES: Here’s Woody Allen on Manhattan (quoted in The Quotable New York by Wm. Cole): “There is no question there is an unseen world; the question is, how far is it from midtown, and how late is it open?”
More seriously, I heard Esther Cohen talk about her 2006 book unseen america at a Labor Voices conference this spring. Hundreds of workers were given cameras and lessons in photography and then asked to document their lives. Through this collection of black-and-white images—sometimes bleak, sometimes poignant, and always honest—the workers give voice to their stories. A remarkable achievement. Check it out. http://www.bread-and-roses.com/unseenbookback.html