“Falling Back” from Daylight Saving Time is Like Groundhog Day
Video Time: 95 minutes **
**but it would have been only 0:35:00 if you read it at 2:00 AM on Nov. 4, as you rolled back the time 1 hour.
Thinking about rolling back the clocks tonight, reminded me of Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day adventures. This yearly practice also recalled “do overs” which we used as kids to get another chance. The keyboard’s “Backspace” key and Word’s “Undo Typing (Ctrl+Z)” feature also allow us to easily begin again. Various spiritual traditions emphasize starting over. Christians refer to being born again. Hindus and Jews of the mystical kabbalah tradition see it as reincarnation. The 12 Steps refer to it as recovery.
How did you “spend” your “extra” hour?
--Selected quote: “It is by God’s design that our minds transcend space and time, 'But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.' 2 Peter 3:8 NIV. We are reminded of His majesty in Job 36:26, 'How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.'” NIV
Movies/Books about the Passage of Time
Groundhog Day "I'm a god" scene (0:03:38)
--“You are not a god. This is 12 years of Catholic school talking.”
Time Travel in Fiction Rundown (0:08:04)
--SPOILER ALERT: interesting, esp. for science types
QuickSilver Scene "Kitchen" - X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014) Movie Clip HD (0:02:48)
Songs about the Passage of Time
Time - Pink Floyd (with lyrics) 1973 (0:07:13)
--click More below the video to view lyrics
The Moody Blues -Forever Afternoon (Tuesday) – 1967 (0:04:29)
--the whole album is about the passage of time
The Wheel ☮ Grateful Dead, 1976 (0:06:02)
The Wheel – Grateful Dead (article)
--deep dive into the song from David Dodd, Research Associate, Music Dept., Univ. of Calif. at Santa Cruz
Jim Croce - Time in a bottle – 1973 (0:02:28)
Time Has Come Today | The Chamber Brothers | Lyrics (0:04:59)
Clocks – Coldplay (0:04:18)
Foreigner – Feels Like the First Time (0:03:51)
Iron Maiden – Caught Somewhere In Time (0:07:26)
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live 1975) (0:09:06)
Huey Lewis And The News - Back In Time (0:02:49)
Uriah Heep – Traveler In Time (with lyrics) (0:03:13)
Foo Fighters - Times Like These (VIDEO) (0:03:50)
Hawkwind – Silver Machine (0:04:39)
The Gathering – Strange Machines (0:06:04)
Selected verses (see link for complete text of this last of Eliot’s Four Quartets):
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.”
tOM