Friday; November 5
Okay, it is time for one of my semi-annual public service announcements. This Sunday morning signals the end of Daylight Savings Time for much of the nation. While this is one of my favorite nights of the year (because we get to fall back an hour), it also rekindles the discussion of the need to change times twice a year. Does this really need to happen in the 21st Century or should we just leave things alone? I don’t know the best answer to this question – and, frankly, it really isn’t that big of a deal to me at my age – but it does serve as another reminder of the fluidity of life. In other words, not only does our time change, our times change. Centuries ago, the wise man described the constantly changing seasons by noting, “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven - A time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a tim