It was only the germ of an idea.
But I dutifully went to Hallmark online and looked for an appropriate card to send to select friends to begin a movement. Not much there, but there were a few. The ideas began to get legs. If more people agreed to do something with the time they gained, then Hallmark would be inspired to develop more cards. Maybe some would be sent though the Postal Service (This was more than ten years ago). More stamps would be sold and mail would remain meaningful.

Spring presented a new set of problems. If you lost an hour in a nanosecond, of what value could that lost hour be? Perhaps, I reasoned, one could crowd all the bad things into that nanosecond. That would be when I would stop smoking for an hour. Stop consumption of drugs and alcohol. Stop being mean to my sister. Just for an hour. Instantly, I felt better. And I’m sure my friends who joined me in that movement felt better too.
As the years have gone by, I have become more imaginative in my doing “good” and stopping “bad” habits and traits. I have actually taken the money from the extra hour and donated it to a charity. It would have been nice if there were a charity tied to time, but those that deal with agriculture (one of the industries that suffered early-on when the cows couldn’t be persuaded to change when they thought they should be milked). Or to the energy industry (which was one of the reasons we would want more of our high energy consumption time in daylight).



And the resolutions would be just like New Years, only you would only have a second or at the most an hour, to be faithful to them. It may be too late to save the Postal Service, but there are other good reasons to make them holidays.
This year I am leaning towards supporting the “we are 99” movement, at least at 2:00 AM Sunday. Next post I will tell you about my latest discovery as to why “Men are from Mars”, and how I think I could lick the problem.