Keeping Time

Is it Wednesday?

No. No, it is not.

This week was marked by so many must-dos that the days slid away. And here it is—Friday, already.

I might have let the week go by without an edition of The Mimifesto. But The Mimifesto has become one way I measure—and capture—time.

Here are a few others.

In 25 Minutes Segments

I’ve been employing the Pomodoro Technique to keep me at work on the novel, even when the time I have is only fragments, in between the items on the To Do list.

In Years

Obvious, yes. But still I’m surprised to realize that I met my husband 19 years ago, this month.

In Cars

Yesterday we bought the third car of our relationship. (How to measure the one we got for free?)

But—as my 80 year-old, car-enthusiast father reminds me—it’s not the years, it’s the mileage.

In Time Between Visits

Up close with my parents: 17 months—in the last two weeks, we’ve had TWO dinners indoors
With new baby: 6 weeks—today, Maia comes for her first sleepover here
With daughter Evangeline: 17 months—and counting (last visit captured in pic above—Madeira 2020, with Evangeline and Caroline)
To Newfoundland, and all the people I love there: 23 months—and counting

Next week I’ll start driving that new car East to close the gap, picking up Evangeline in Halifax and then making our way together to our place in Newfoundland.

Time spent and miles travelled. I’m savouring both.