Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 38
Bulldoze Calendar
Bulldoze Calendar is a small handle on a large fact. Grip it, and the fact becomes easier to carry.
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.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
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. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.