Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 35

Blue-to-Black Line

You may not know the name Blue-to-Black Line, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

Every January, the gym fills; by March, the regulars have the place to themselves again. The calendar changed nothing. The people who stayed simply stopped asking the calendar for permission.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. And when you forget it — you will — the world will remind you. It is a faithful tutor.