I’d Like to Save Time In a Bottle, Please

May 30, 2024

In my early teens, I had a Jim Croce CD that I listened to on repeat. My favorite song was “Time in a Bottle.” After singing the song for over a year in my room, I was delighted to find out that my high school choir would be singing it for Homecoming during my sophomore year. That performance was memorable because the song held such weight.

Granted, when I was in high school, I didn’t realize just how much time I had available to spend how I wished. Now that I’m a slightly-graying summer chicken, I have a deeper appreciation for the sentiments:

If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do

Is to save every day till eternity passes away just to spend them with you.

But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them.

I’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with.

I’m also old enough now to realize that, while this song is obviously a love song about a person you romantically want to spend your life with, the words can also apply to other loves—friends, pets, hobbies, books, experiences, etc.

Rubber Band Time

Time is such a funny thing. Lots of scientists and philosophers (plus all the rest of us armchair speculators) have spent more than enough of it just thinking and theorizing about the nature of time.

Name 3 things you feel like you don’t have enough time for. (Did crafting make the list?!)

Now list 3 times you were bored to tears because time seemed to move so slowly.

Time on the Brain

Time has been on my mind even more recently. I’m currently rereading the A Discovery of Witches books by Deborah Harkness. This is my first time listening to the audiobooks, and I’m enjoying them tremendously! I’m reading the second book now, Shadow of Night, so the concept of time is in the forefront.

BTW, if you love the All Souls Trilogy as much as I do, or if you just love fantasy creatures—witches, vampires, or daemons (aka creative geniuses)—I have sock pattern that will be published in time for the release of the newest All Souls book by Deborah Harkness in July!

Also, I feel like I have about six months’ worth of responsibilities to fit into the next two months. If anyone has a Time Bottle hanging around in a closet, I could use a few of your stored weeks! Unfortunately, I won’t be spending it in Cabo with a love—I’ll be elbow deep in paint buckets and moving boxes. All good things… all good things…

I’ll be doing whatever snow does in summer

I will be doing my best to send out positive, thoughtful posts every other week. But if I fall short of that goal (as I did this week), I hope you will grant me a bit of grace during this next season. You, dear reader, are often in my thoughts, and I would much prefer to be sitting here writing to you—or knitting!!!—rather than completing all of the Adult Stuff I have on my to-do list. But, I am not a teenager anymore, listening to CDs in my own room. So for now I’ll sing “Time in a Bottle” to myself while I see to my responsibilities.