Measuring TIME is a science. We call it chronometry. Whether we measure seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years — our world needs time. Yet, time has a way of slipping by us, unnoticed. We focus on our daily lives, conscious of meeting short-term deadlines, oblivious of what time has changed. Then, something occurs that makes you see just how much time has transpired. Something like the sixteenth birthday of my firstborn grandchild!

She will be 16 on the 29th of this year! For me, routine time has to stop. My focus has to become her, if just for that day. I remember seeing her for the first time, in her mother’s arms. I remember how excited we all were, and grateful! She made me a grandparent! Many of you know exactly what that means.

So, the 29th of December, 2021, is reserved for her.