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The Ronaissance Newsletter – The Hour We Get Back (Plus a Free Audiobook!)
Published 8 days ago • 3 min read
The Hour We Get Back Sometime early this morning, while most of us were asleep, the clocks quietly gave us back an hour. No ceremony. No receipt. Just sixty extra minutes slipped into a Sunday. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with clocks. Fifteen years ago, I sat alone in a cold car on the top level of a hospital parking garage and took a picture of the dashboard clock. 3:12 a.m. Ken had just been admitted after a twelve-hour day in the ER, and I’d stayed until he fell asleep. I...
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