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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
**Rashid:** I’ve always wondered if this sort of compulsive documentation—these habits we have around writing down what happens at any moment in time—is actually about the fear of losing time, and our impulse to, you know, want to control it.
> **Sarah Manguso:** I felt this kind of maybe pathological anxiety that if I lost those memories, if I lost the memory of the emotional weather of the day, I would be losing some essential part of myself, this essential part of my life.
Can We Keep Time?
Becca Rashid, Ian Bogost
Running for Rachel turns into a hovering above her own head after the first two miles. It’s good for the muscles, Rachel’s regular coach from her hometown gym tells her. But really Rachel thinks running is best for forgetting she has a head.
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