Do you ever look back to some event and try to recall when it happened and then realize it wasn\u2019t a year ago, it was three years ago?<\/p>\n
Or not three but ten!<\/p>\n
In the book, Moonwalking with Einstein, The Art and Science of Remembering Everything<\/em>, author Joshua Foer says the way to slow that phenomena down is to fill our lives with more variety.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t say that I read the book but Anne did, and read passages to me as we were traveling on one of our trips last year. (Or was it the year before?)<\/p>\n According to Foer, it\u2019s the routine of our lives that collapses our perception of passing time. Having a sprinkling of events that stand out makes the memory fuller and helps us to separate periods and \u201cmini-epochs.\u201d<\/p>\n (That\u2019s my term, not his, but it works.)<\/p>\n I suppose it stands to reason that experiencing more variety would make our lives seem<\/em> fuller, when in fact they are<\/em> fuller. Still, it\u2019s an interesting bit of nature to know about.<\/p>\n As it happens, though Anne and I just returned from Oregon two weeks ago, as of tomorrow we\u2019re going to Spain! For three weeks!!<\/p>\n Our friends Louis and Lisa (frequent commenters on this blog) live there. But they sometimes travel here, and offered us their place while they\u2019re gone. (We offered ours in return, but they didn\u2019t need it.)<\/p>\n So, it\u2019ll be a new adventure for us. Though we\u2019ve been to many Spanish-speaking countries, some numerous times, we\u2019ve never been to the motherland.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure if all this will make life longer, but maybe it\u2019ll help it from seeming to go by quite so fast.<\/p>\n Certainly it makes life fuller.<\/p>\n Before leaving, we visited my parents. It\u2019s Dad\u2019s birthday today. He\u2019s 97.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve had such a full life; for them time just keeps going and going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you ever wonder why time seems to pass so fast? It’s a result of the routine in our lives. One solution: Variety!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}