I want to start blogging more frequently. In fact, a sort of new year's resolution is to blog every day, regardless of what there is to say, just like zillions of blogs out there. Just an experiment. So, onward:

A friend of Chinese heritage told us that it's not a good idea to give a clock to a Chinese person as a gift. It's a reminder of death. This brings to mind the "death as an advisor" thinking in Castaneda or the memento mori -- a useful aspect of a clock, really: to be reminded of our finitude (without becoming morose about it). For most of us a clock is a reminder of schedule and all the things we need to rush to do, propelling us in the usual headlong rush.