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Bezig met laden... Time and the Art of Living (1982)door Robert Grudin
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This is a book about time--about one's own journey through it and, more important, about enlarging the pleasure one takes in that journey. It's about memory of the past, hope and fear for the future, and how they color, for better and for worse, one's experience of the present. Ultimately, it's a book about freedom--freedom from despair of the clock, of the aging body, of the seeming waste of one's daily routine, the freedom that comes with acceptance and appreciation of the human dimensions of time and of the place of each passing moment on life's bounteous continuum. For Robert Grudin, living is an art, and cultivating a creative partnership with time is one of the keys to mastering it. In a series of wise, witty, and playful meditations, he suggests that happiness lies not in the effort to conquer time but rather in learning "to bend to its curve," in hearing its music and learning to dance to it. Grudin offers practical advice and mental exercises designed to help the readeruse time more effectively, but this is no ordinary self-help book. It is instead a kind of wisdom literature, a guide to life, a feast for the mind and for the spirit. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Late in the book Grudin begins a tirade against the inefficient and inconsistent ways we have of noting time’s passage: units composed of 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours, 7 days, 28, 29, 30 or 31 days, 12 months, 365 or 366 days. He provides a more rational approach in a time scheme that is partly decimal, and he reveals that he has structured this book on the calendar developed after the French Revolution by the Republicans, with twelve chapters and 30 numbered “daily” sections in each of these “months.” The effect is slighlty embarrassing, as if a traveler with whom one was sharing a train compartment revealed the details of his obsessive-compulsive disorder part way through the trip.
Grudin recommends keeping a journal in the last section of the book entitled “Memory,” and his advice is “use convenient physical media, keep them handy, and give yourself time to write” (180), but, most important, record the detail; the emotional reaction (“we had a wonderful time”) is not helpful to your later self in recreating the moment. ( )