The 24 Hour Project
thinking about each hour in the day
Clock time is arbitrary, sure. One of the innovations of the French Revolution was to introduce a completely different calendar - a 10 day work week called a "century" and a division of days into 10 hours consisting of 100 minutes each. The numbers didn't quite add up (and the workers hated losing their Saturdays) but the premise itself strikes me as reasonable - the clock itself is a construct. We're the meaning makers.
That's why to me each hour of the day has always had its own identity. 7 AM is the hour of possibility. 3 AM is the witching hour. I wanted to collect my friend's own understanding of an hour a day, and put them together as a small navigable site
My favorite may have come from my Dad (for the 5 AM Hour).
The astronauts are riding the elevator to the capsule. It's dark, but the radios crackle with checklist instructions. The astronauts breathe slowly, deeply, in and out. Been there, done this, time and again. Stir, stare at the screen flash swallowed by darkness, and suppress the vague unease at waking. Resist the urge to close your eyes and drift off somewhere else. Set yourself in motion, take that first step out of bed, and ignite the daydream: "That's one small step for man …
For the same hour, my friend Vishak had a different take
"I'm never doing this again"
Both perfect, both true. I hope you'll add one in