I am slowly slowly making my way through the S-Town podcast. It’s sad and moving and I don’t really want it to end. So I’m listening about 5 minutes at a time, as I walk to the subway in the morning.
The podcast’s subject, John B. McLemore, loves sundials and their mottos. They are always sad, about time being fleeting, life’s impermanence.
“Tedious and brief” is one of his favourites. Your life is tedious and brief.
Doesn’t that resonate? If it doesn’t, you are not a lawyer.
Reminds me of the Woody Allen joke at the beginning of Annie Hall (“such small portions”):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxlfvI17oY
Anyways, now I want a tedious & brief wrist tattoo. I’m on a mission.