Schedule - What then shall I do this morning?

A schedule defends
from chaos and whim.

It is a net
for catching days.

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.

Each day is the same,
so you remember the series afterward
as a blurred and powerful
pattern.

A schedule is scaffolding -
a worker can stand and labour
with both hands -
at sections of time.

A schedule is a mock up
of reason and order -
willed, faked and
brought into being.

It is a peace and a harm haven
set into the wreck of time.

It is a lifeboat on which
you find yourself -
decades later -
still living.

I read Annie Dillard's 'The Writing Life' a couple of months ago and sculpted this piece out of it.

Dream intentionally - while you're awake.