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Time

Some thoughts on time… There are certain lines from popular songs that are in my head and probably will be until all my memories are erased, if that ever happens.   There are two that relate to time.   One is from the Steve Miller band and the line is likely familiar to some of you.   “Time keeps on slippin’ slippin, slippin’’ into the future.   Sorry if I have you remembering a song you’d rather forget.   Personally, I really liked that song when it came out, and even today I’ll listen to it occasionally.      Another more recent line comes from a song called, “Breathe” by an artist named Anna Nalick.   That line goes like this: “cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on the cable, and life’s like an hourglass glued to the table, no one can find the rewind…” Images of San Francisco with its fabled cable cars comes to mind and provides an accurate image of the inevitability of time moving forward.   And an hourglass glued to the table is an effective word picture for a r