Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 293
Walk and Talk
Walk and Talk is a small handle on a large fact. Grip it, and the fact becomes easier to carry.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
Consider the farmer. He does not argue with the season; he arranges his work inside it. The city man does the opposite — he argues with every Monday and is surprised every Friday.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Keep the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.